History

Founded in 1881 by Sir Richard Green Price of Norton, MP for Radnorshire 1880-85, to replace those demolished besides No 3 Wylcwm Street.

Exterior

Arts and Crafts (influence of Norman Shaw), 2-storey group of 4 Almshouses with higher cross ranges to left and right. Rubble ground floor, half-timbered first floor with concave-sided diamonds, tiled roofs with cresting, 2 stellar brick chimney stacks. Broad gables with moulded bargeboards, wide boarded eaves, jettied treatment over paired splayed oriels with moulded glazing bars and curved brackets to 1st floor. Two 6-pane casement windows to ground-floor left and right. Central set-back gables with moulded bargeboards and cusped braces, 4-light window.

Tiled lean-to roof to centre forming porch to Nos 16 and 17. Nos 15 and 18 are entered under separate tiled hooded porches supported on curved brackets. Rubble side elevations with half-timbered gable, half-hipped roofs to rear of gables.

Garden entered by lych-gate with open timberwork pitched roof and 2 wooden gates. Enclosed by rubble boundary wall with gate piers; plaque set into outer face of wall to right of gate reads:- "Erected in memory of Richard Dansey and Clara Ann Green Price by Devoted Children 1930".

Reasons for Listing

Group value.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29487820

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)