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SE 3055 SW 14/58
SE 3054 NW 25/58

BELFORD ROAD
Roger's Almshouses [Nos 1 to 12 (consec)]

GV
II
Circa 1868. Gothic style. Two storeys, ranged round three sides of courtyard with clock tower projecting from centre of inner side. Slated roofs with coped gables and bracketed eaves course carrying gutter. Rusticated grit stone ashlar with first floor string. Two-light casement window to each house with gabled first floor windows with trefoil heads. Ground floor windows with splayed reveals. Recessed doorways with simple bracketed hoods, fanlights and boarded doors. Four storey clock tower with pyramidical roof and gabled clock faces; loops to each floor except ground floor with two-light window in arched recess with carved tympanum and inscription 'George Rogers, 1868' over hood mould; bronze bust of Rogers on bracket over ground floor window. Nos 1 to 12 (consec) Roger's Almshouses form a group.

Listing NGR: SE3037054945

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Roger's Almshouses at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26442404

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)