Description

SOUTH STREET
1.
5191
(East Side)
Napper's Mite
(formerly listed as
Napper's Mite
Almhouses).
ST 6990 7/104 8.5.50.
II*
2.
Founded in 1610 by Sir Robert Napper for 10 poor men. there were 10 1-storey
dwellings arranged along the front and round the inner courtyard. The room
over the front range was used for Bible instruction. All buildings have been
much restored, the front apparently re-faced. 2 storey stone front has dwarf
wall and segmental-arched arcade to cloister. Moulded string above ground
floor. 5 2-light casement windows to lst floor. In centre is parapetted gable
with gabled bell-cote. Not quite in centre of gable is a corbel bracket supporting
a clock (C19). Central doorway leads to small square courtyard surrounded
by l-storey dwellings.
Courtyard has mullioned casements with hollow chamfered mouldings. 2 pairs
of brick stacks diagonally placed. 3 tall brick C18 stacks.
Rear has 1 gable at each end. Central gabled porch. 5 mullioned casements
with hoodmoulds that on left side (the chapel) with 3 arched lights.

Listing NGR: SY6925090475

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543189

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Recommended Books

• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)