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Latitude: 51.4773 / 51°28'38"N
Longitude: -0.013 / 0°0'46"W
OS Eastings: 538088
OS Northings: 177238
OS Grid: TQ380772
Mapcode National: GBR L1.MDG
Mapcode Global: VHGR7.Q4HC
Plus Code: 9C3XFXGP+WR
Entry Name: Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses
Listing Date: 19 October 1951
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1220818
English Heritage Legacy ID: 200382
ID on this website: 101220818
Location: Greenwich, London, SE10
County: London
District: Greenwich
Electoral Ward/Division: Greenwich West
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Greenwich
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Greenwich St Alfege
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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4412 GREENWICH HIGH ROAD SElO
(South Side)
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Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses
TQ 3877 26/G46 19.10.51.
II GV
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Founded 1575 by Wm Lombarde. Rebuilt 1819. Rows of 2 storeys. Cottages grouped
around 3 sides of rectangular lawn. Centre group with chapel on axis with stone
Ionic portico of 3 bays - flanking columns are paired. Horizontal entablature
with blocking course. Brick pediment above at wall face with moulded stone
cornice, clock in tympanum and surmounted by bell cupole with wind vane. 3
cottages each side of chapel, side rows 7 cottages each. Yellow stock brick
2 windows. Low pitched slate roof with eaves. Recessed windows with glazing
bars. Small hoods on shaped brackets to doorways. Gables of North end of side
rows have coat-of-arms in stone roundel in tympanum of pediment and below a round-heade
arched blank window in arched recess with stone band at springing and inscribed
tablet above. Wrought-iron entrance gate. To the South are C19 early-mid cottages
forming part of the group; also one pair of cottages at either end of south range.
Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses and front railings and gates fdorm a group.
Listing NGR: TQ3808877238
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