Description

ARRINGTON ERMINE WAY
TL 3250 (West side)

15/10
Nos 123, 125, 127,
16.7.79 129 (Countess of
Hardwicke Almshouses)
(formerly listed as
Nos 119-129)

GV II

Six almshouses, now four. 1846 to the design of H E Kendall for Susan, fourth
Countess of Hardwicke, in memory of her mother. Red brick and Ketton
limestone dressings. Fishscale patterned tiled roof. Four symmetrically
disposed ridge stacks, reproducing those of C17, with panelled sides in arched
heads, stone dressings and entablature. Single range with wings at north and
south ends. Single storey main range has a central porch with shaped gable
parapet with shield of arms of Earls of Hardwicke to the tympanum. Four
centred arch in square head with stepped stone label. Adjacent doorways with
original boarded doors, cover strips and iron furniture. Four, three-light
casements. Wings are of two storeys with shaped gable end parapets and
rusticated stone quoins. Each has a casement at first floor and a three-light
cross-frame casement at ground floor. Gabled porch in each angle, with
similar adjacent doorways, one now blocked. There is a paved stone terrace on
the front approached by a flight of three steps.

RCHM: West Cambs mon (8)

Listing NGR: TL3278250301

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26421064

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)