Description

TL 2886-2986 TL 2885-2985 RAMSEY HIGH STREET
11/18 12/18
Nos 110 to 118 (even)
GV
II

Alms houses dated 1839 on stone plaque with crest of Fellowes family. Symmetrical
plan. Two storey, central block with projecting central bay, flanked by
2 single-storey wings to east and west. Reused abbey stone with limestone dressings
to window and door architraves, copings to gables, and pseudo buttresses. Plain tile
roofs. Main 2-storey range has kneed parapet gables and end stacks with diagonal
brick shafts and 2 similar symmetrical ridge stacks. Central gabled bay has 6-light
mullioned and transomed first floor casement window above moulded string with inset
date plaque. Four pseudo buttresses flank central 3-light, mullioned window and
2 panelled doors each with 4 centred arches. Symmetrical arrangement of mullioned
casement windows flank closed, gabled porches to east and wst of central bay. Single
storey wings identical, with kneed parapet gables and stone finials, 3-light mullioned
windows, and side entrances with panelled doors in 4 centred arches. The alms houses
and school, abbey gate house, the church form one of the finest group of buildings
around the Abbey Green in the country.

Source: Pevsner. p.335.

Listing NGR: TL2899085150

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26423323

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House