Description

LITTLE BUDWORTH C.P. THE VILLAGE SJ 56 NE 3/58 Dodds Charity alms houses and garden wall. 10.3.53 (Formerly listed as Almshouses)

- II* Almshouses and garden wall. Late C17. Red Flemish bond brick with red sandstone ashlar dressings and red sandstone ashlar with plain tile roof. Two storeys. Entrance front: Five bays (Symmetrically disposed. Central three bays projecting with ashlar quoins alternately flush with brickwork and slightly projecting with chamfered rustification. Central doorway with round arch and quoins and voussoirs of similar flush and projecting format.C20 double door with fanlight over (now painted over). Plain stone tablet above this with arched top and moulded edge. To either side at ground and first floor levels are two-light mullioned windows with chamfered surrounds. Similar arrangement in lateral recessed bays. Right hand return: Ashlar walling. Building of two phases, a later wing having been added at right. Single light ground and first floor windows at left with door to right of centre and 2-light ground and first floor windows at right. Rear: Central projecting 2 bays with door at left and 2-light widow at right with 2 C20 windows above. Two single-light windows to right of this and C19 wing at left with 2 single light windows. Adjoining the later wing and forming a rectangular garden enclosure is a wall of coursed ashlar c 3' in height with a chamfered coping. Interior: Passage hallway with staircase to centre having ashlar treads and wooden balustrade with square newels and column balusters of 3-sided open-well format. Plank doors to ground and first floor rooms.

Listing NGR: SJ5949065348

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