Description

HILMARTON CHURCH ROAD SU 07 NW (south side) 6/246 The Poynder Almshouses 24.6.74 GV II Row of five Poynder estate almshouses, dated 1877, rockfaced rubble stone with ashlar dressings and banded fishscale tiled roofs with coped gables and end stacks to each house. Single storey, elongated H-plan with three houses in a row and one across each end, each house with 2-light mullion window and hoodmould each side of gabled porch. Iron lattice lights. Centre house has more ornate gabled porch, advanced further, with pointed-arched entry and armorial plaque over. Houses each side and end houses have coped gables to centre with lancet in gable and Tudor-arched entry with hoodmould. End gables facing road of end houses have 1:2:1- light ashlar canted bays. Plan appears to be based on Plate 7, for a group of three cottages, in Henry Weaver's Hints on Cottage Architecture, 1848.

Listing NGR: SU0210875311

External Links

• Wikidata Q26645566

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