Description

ST 46 SE
5/90

CHURCHILL C.P.
Lower Langford
LANGFORD ROAD (north side)
Victoria Jubilee Langford Homes

GV
II
Almshouses. Dated 1887 (on cartouche). Possibly by Foster and Wood of Bristol. Finely jointed squared and coursed dressed stone with ashlar dressings, wooden bargeboards and loggias, dressed stone copings, plain tile roofs and brick stacks.
Free-form Gothic style. Two storey, nine bay south front with end bays advanced and
central gabled section with ornate cartouche. Windows are cross-mullions with plate glass lights throughout, those to alternate bays on ground floor in canted bays, those to end sections in semi-circular bays. Upper alternate windows under gables. Lean-to roof over ground floor windows with three round-arched loggias: four plank doors, bracketted eaves cornice, steeply pitched gabled roof with tall anelled stacks. Porches to east and west return fronts and statue of Queen Victoria above west porch. Erected at the expense of Sidney Hill of Langford House (qv).

Listing NGR: ST4631660708

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26606858

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)