Description

BEDWIN STREET
1.
1594
(South Side)
Taylor' s Almshouses
[Nos 1 to 7 (consec)]
SU 1450 SE 2/232 28.2.52
II GV
2.
1698 rebuilt 1886 presumably to old design. 2 storeys, red brick, raised
stone cupped plinth, bold chamfered stone quoins, moulded stone string at
1st floor cill and window head level moulded and bracketed wood cornice,
tile roof.
Central Dutch gable with moulded coping, stone side scrolls on moulded band
supporting small pediment and finial. Stone cornice across base at level
above main cornice. 6 narrow windows at lst floor level with stone bolection
frames and moulded cills. 2 similar double windows on ground floor and wide
centre door with stone eared bolection architrave, bolection frieze, moulded
cornice, broken pediment with central carved cartouche, date and inscription.
Gable end facing St Edmund's Church Street similar design, with 2 narrow
windows and central chimney, 1-storey wing at back. An L-shaped group built
round a garden court. In entrance hall original cartouche with date.

Frowd's Almshouses, Nos 26 to 34 (even) & Taylor's Almshouses form a group.

Listing NGR: SU1463230272

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26638568

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)