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Metcalfe Almshouses

A Grade II Listed Building in Hawstead, Suffolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1995 / 52°11'58"N

Longitude: 0.7199 / 0°43'11"E

OS Eastings: 585978

OS Northings: 259179

OS Grid: TL859591

Mapcode National: GBR QFL.2TN

Mapcode Global: VHKDB.FZG8

Plus Code: 9F425PX9+QX

Entry Name: Metcalfe Almshouses

Listing Date: 14 July 1955

Last Amended: 27 January 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1229511

English Heritage Legacy ID: 404335

ID on this website: 101229511

Location: Hawstead, West Suffolk, IP29

County: Suffolk

District: West Suffolk

Civil Parish: Hawstead

Traditional County: Suffolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk

Church of England Parish: Hawstead All Saints

Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich

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Description


TL 85 NE HAWSTEAD THE POUND

5/72 Metcalfe Almshouses
(Nos.1 to 4 (consec)
14.7.55 Formerly listed as Almshouses

II


Almshouses, 1811 on plaque, for P. Metcalfe. A-B-A, with central bay set
slightly back. Elements in the Gothic style. 2 storeys, 2 windows to each
cottage. Gault brick with brick parapets, moulded cornice and crenellations of
limestone with merlons arched at the centre bay. Hipped slated roof with
rendered brick axial chimneys. Windows with 2-centred arched heads of gauged
brick; sliding small-pane sashes, the upper glazing bars following the arch
form of the window-head. At 1st floor a central dummy window. Battened and
boarded entrance doors with arched heads, the 2 central doorways linked under
an ogee arch of gauged brick and square limestone hoodmould above. A frieze
beneath the cornice in the central bay has the inscription "These Alms Houses
were erected and endowed, for the benefit of the Aged, and Deserving, Poor,
Anno 1811, by PHILIP METCALFE, Esqr".


Listing NGR: TL8597859179

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