Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/03/2017

TF 0645 1/11

EASTGATE (Southside)
Bede House
Carre's Hospital Pump and Sundial in the Forecourt and wall along Carre Street

(Formerly listed as Carre's Hospital (also known as The Bede Houses) Pump and Sun-dial in the Forecourt and wall along Carre Street)

16.7.49

GV
II*
Architect, H E Kendall. Nine bay east range of 1830. Seven bay south range of 1841-6. On site of the house of the Carre family. L-plan. Range of early C19 almshouses in ashlar. Good 'Gothick" design of two storeys, five projecting porches with four-centred entrance arches and corner buttresses. Three windows to each section with two-light mullion windows to sides and labels to centre windows. Centre of south range has gable-ended chapel with crocketed pinnacles and traceried 'Perpendicular' pinnacles and traceried 'Perpendicular' window, over door in rectangular frame. Slate roofs and embattled parapet. Garden in front with pump and sundial and a paved walk beside street. Stone wall to right. Old gas lamp standard. Railings to wall have gone.

Carre's Hospital and Nos 2-8 (even)form a group

Listing NGR: TF0691745851

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17549178

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)