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Latitude: 52.235 / 52°14'6"N
Longitude: 0.902 / 0°54'7"E
OS Eastings: 598262
OS Northings: 263616
OS Grid: TL982636
Mapcode National: GBR SHX.T1P
Mapcode Global: VHKDF.L27Y
Plus Code: 9F426WP2+2R
Entry Name: The Almshouses
Listing Date: 15 November 1954
Last Amended: 9 May 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1181926
English Heritage Legacy ID: 281131
ID on this website: 101181926
Location: Elmswell, Mid Suffolk, IP30
County: Suffolk
District: Mid Suffolk
Civil Parish: Elmswell
Built-Up Area: Elmswell
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Elmswell St John the Divine
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: Almshouse
TL 96 SE ELMSWELL CHURCH ROAD
5/28 Nos. 1 to 3 (consec) The
15.11.54 Almshouses (formerly
listed as Elmswell Hill
Almshouses)
GV II
Terrace of 3 cottages. Built as 6 almshouses, c.1614 for Sir Robert Gardener.
Narrow red/buff bricks, with parapet gables. Slated roof: two internal
chimneys of red/buff bricks with sawtooth shafts and a similar chimney rising
from apex of each gable. One storey. 6 windows. Two-light mullioned windows
with plastered surrounds in simulation of ashlar work. An ovolo-moulded label
at the head: C20 steel casements with leaded lights. A central entrance
doorway: plastered outer frame with cambered head and heavy wooden inner
frame, and C18/C19 boarded door. A pair of doorways to each of the end
cottages: plaster-work and label to match windows. Flat chamfered head
supported by heavy wooden frame. The right-hand pair of doors are of battened
plank form and may be original. The left-hand pair of boarded doors are
unoriginal: one blocked, the other C18/C19. Over the central doorway is a
gable, within which is a square sundial. Beneath the sundial is a square
limestone panel inscribed: "SIR ROBERT GARDENER KT. SOMETIME LORD OF THESE
MANORS OF ELMSWELL AND WOLPIT FOUNDED THIS ALMSHOUSE IN YE TIME OF HIS LIFE
AN° 1614 AND GAVE UNTO IT SUFFICIENT MAINTENANCE FOR SIX POORE WOMEN WIDOWS TO
CONTINUE FOR EVER".
Listing NGR: TL9826263616
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