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Latitude: 51.402 / 51°24'7"N
Longitude: -1.325 / 1°19'29"W
OS Eastings: 447051
OS Northings: 167209
OS Grid: SU470672
Mapcode National: GBR 81Z.1TH
Mapcode Global: VHCZJ.Z1D2
Plus Code: 9C3WCM2G+Q2
Entry Name: 4, Northcroft Lane
Listing Date: 29 September 1950
Last Amended: 2 September 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1211288
English Heritage Legacy ID: 395796
ID on this website: 101211288
Location: Newbury, West Berkshire, RG14
County: West Berkshire
Civil Parish: Newbury
Built-Up Area: Newbury
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire
Church of England Parish: Newbury St Nicolas
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Almshouse
1. NORTHCROFT LANE
5127 (north side)
No 4
(formerly listed as
No 4 (Almshouses))
SU 4767 SW 6/177 29.9.50
II GV
2.
Circa 1821 almshouses erected and endowed by John Childs for 3 male members of the
Church of England. Gothick style. Two storeys. Double fronted with 3 windows.
Hipped tile roof. Red brick with dentil eaves cornice. Arched. 2-light casement
window with Y tracery and hoodmounds. Wide central doorway with moulded hood.
Blind window over doorway with dedicatory inscription 'This Almshouse was erected
and endorsed AD 1821 by Mr John Childs sail-cloth manufacturer of this town for
poor men of good moral character, natives and parishoners of Newbury'.
(VCH Berkshire 4, 153).
Listing NGR: SU4705167209
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