Latitude: 51.4773 / 51°28'38"N
Longitude: -0.013 / 0°0'46"W
OS Eastings: 538088
OS Northings: 177238
OS Grid: TQ380772
Mapcode National: GBR L1.MDG
Mapcode Global: VHGR7.Q4HC
Plus Code: 9C3XFXGP+WR
Entry Name: Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses
Listing Date: 19 October 1951
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1220818
English Heritage Legacy ID: 200382
ID on this website: 101220818
Location: Greenwich, London, SE10
County: London
District: Greenwich
Electoral Ward/Division: Greenwich West
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Greenwich
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Greenwich St Alfege
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
Tagged with: Architectural structure
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 April 2025 to amend date of build and reformat the text to current standards
TQ 3877
26/G46
GREENWICH HIGH ROAD SElO (south side)
Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses 19.10.51.
GV
II
Founded 1576 by Wm Lambarde. Rebuilt 1818. Rows of two storeys. Cottages grouped around three sides of rectangular lawn. Centre group with chapel on axis with stone Ionic portico of three bays - flanking columns are paired. Horizontal entablature with blocking course. Brick pediment above at wall face with moulded stone cornice, clock in tympanum and surmounted by bell cupole with wind vane. Three cottages each side of chapel, side rows seven cottages each. Yellow stock brick two windows. Low pitched slate roof with eaves. Recessed windows with glazing bars. Small hoods on shaped brackets to doorways. Gables of north end of side rows have coat-of-arms in stone roundel in tympanum of pediment and below a round-headed arched blank window in arched recess with stone band at springing and inscribed tablet above. Wrought-iron entrance gate. To the south are C19 early-mid cottages forming part of the group; also one pair of cottages at either end of south range.
Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses and front railings and gates form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ3808877238
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 April 2025 to amend date of build and reformat the text to current standards
TQ 3877
26/G46
GREENWICH HIGH ROAD SElO (south side)
Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses 19.10.51.
GV
II
Founded 1576 by Wm Lambarde. Rebuilt 1818. Rows of two storeys. Cottages grouped around three sides of rectangular lawn. Centre group with chapel on axis with stone Ionic portico of three bays - flanking columns are paired. Horizontal entablature with blocking course. Brick pediment above at wall face with moulded stone cornice, clock in tympanum and surmounted by bell cupole with wind vane. Three cottages each side of chapel, side rows seven cottages each. Yellow stock brick two windows. Low pitched slate roof with eaves. Recessed windows with glazing bars. Small hoods on shaped brackets to doorways. Gables of north end of side rows have coat-of-arms in stone roundel in tympanum of pediment and below a round-headed arched blank window in arched recess with stone band at springing and inscribed tablet above. Wrought-iron entrance gate. To the south are C19 early-mid cottages forming part of the group; also one pair of cottages at either end of south range.
Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses and front railings and gates form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ3808877238
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