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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26523265

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