Description

SO 61 NE
6/170
27.4.78

MITCHELDEAN
THE STENDERS
(south side)
Nos 1 and 2, Almshouse
(formerly listed as The Wilderness Charity Almshouses, Stenders Road)

II

Semi-detached houses; 1857 (datestone); squared, roughly coursed
stone, ashlar dressings, tiled roof. L-plan, gable to road, one-
and-a-half storeys. Entry porch set diagonally in angle:
shouldered lintel to doorway, below pointed arch containing shield
and leaf carving; hoodmould over: door boarded. On right return
to porch a lancet window. Porch roof gabled, swept eaves, plain
bargeboards. Left gable of house, 3-light stone window, trefoil
heads to equal-height lights, below relieving arch, 2-light window
above without relieving arch. On right return single lancet.
Gable as for porch. Right-hand gable has plain, chamfered plinth,
with corner buttresses below plinth extending side walls. Ground
floor a recessed canted bay with ashlar voussoirs over, 2-light in
centre. Gable and window above as left gable. Lateral chimneys.
"HD" carved on shield, 'AD mdccclvii' on lintel to door.

Listing NGR: SO6610918472

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26631921

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide