Description

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ST 2324 NW 12/10
ST 2524 SW 14/10

EAST STREET (South Side)
Nos 1-10 Grays Alms Houses

(Formerly listed as Gray's Almshouses, EAST STREET)

4.6.52.

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Founded by Robert Gray to 1015 for poor single women. Two storey range. Leaded casement windows are mostly new, otherwise few alterations. The East Street front is of dark red brick with nine large chimney stacks, paired shafts set diagonally. Ashlar dressings and stone plinth. Weathered string over ground floor. Old tile roof. Square bell cupola with weather vane. Three and two-light stone mullioned windows. Three entrances with tablet above one bearing the arms of Robert Gray, dated 1635, another arms of the Merchant Tailors. Access to the dwellings by corridors along the back of each dlmop. Small room used as chapel has original benches and painted ceiling.

Nos 1-10 Grays Alms Houses and Nos 48 to 54 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: ST2307424504

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Gray's Almshouses, Taunton at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5598108

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)