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1-20, Dormans Crescent

A Grade II Listed Building in Dormanstown, Redcar and Cleveland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.6085 / 54°36'30"N

Longitude: -1.0948 / 1°5'41"W

OS Eastings: 458562

OS Northings: 524081

OS Grid: NZ585240

Mapcode National: GBR NHS4.RR

Mapcode Global: WHF80.4FXD

Plus Code: 9C6WJW54+C3

Entry Name: 1-20, Dormans Crescent

Listing Date: 29 April 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1310859

English Heritage Legacy ID: 60296

ID on this website: 101310859

Location: Dormanstown, Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, TS10

County: Redcar and Cleveland

Electoral Ward/Division: Dormanstown

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Redcar

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Coatham and Dormanstown

Church of England Diocese: York

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Description


REDCAR DORMAN'S CRESCENT,
NZ 52 SE
Dormanstown.
4/41 Nos. 1 to 20 consecutive.
- II

Twenty aged persons' cottages, 1931. Brick, rendered above sills. Welsh
slate roofs. Four terraced blocks of 4 and 6 cottages, on 3 sides of a
green. Single storey. Each cottage has projecting flat-roofed bay with
renewed door and casement window. Renewed casement window with cambered
head, right or left of bay according to position in terrace. Painted sills;
brick quoins. Hipped roofs with stacks at junctions. Inscribed concrete
tablets, that in return of No 1 :"THIS STONE - WAS LAID BY - MRS ARTHUR
DORMAN - 3RD JANUARY 1931"; that in return of No. 20 : 1 "THIS STONE - WAS
LAID BY - THE RT. HON. GEORGE LANSBURY M.P. - FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS
- 3RD JANUARY, 1931". The first local authority aged persons' cottages in
England, opened May, 1931 as Sir Arthur Dorman Memorial Homes. Included for
historical interest.


Listing NGR: NZ5856224081

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