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Latitude: 52.3382 / 52°20'17"N
Longitude: 1.671 / 1°40'15"E
OS Eastings: 650169
OS Northings: 277474
OS Grid: TM501774
Mapcode National: GBR YWT.98Q
Mapcode Global: VHM75.XH7C
Plus Code: 9F438MQC+79
Entry Name: Numbers 1-4 Almshouses (Including Attached Walling and Gateway on Covert Road Frontage)
Listing Date: 14 June 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1032139
English Heritage Legacy ID: 281892
ID on this website: 101032139
Location: Reydon, East Suffolk, IP18
County: Suffolk
District: East Suffolk
Civil Parish: Reydon
Built-Up Area: Reydon
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Reydon St Margaret
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: Almshouse
TM 57 NW
5/27
REYDON
COVERT ROAD
Nos.1-4 (inc.) Almshouses (including attached walling and gateway on Covert Road frontage)
II
Group of almshouses, comprising 4 identical cottages arranged around a small
green and linked by low walling. Dated 1908 on turrets either side of main
entrance, together with the inscription 'The Rest for the Aged'. Red brick
with dark headers; plaintiled roofs. Single storey. Each cottage has a T
shape plan: hipped roof with weatherboarded gablets to main block, crowstepped
gable end set forwards. Casement windows with square-leaded panes, segmental
arches; boarded and battened entrance doors. In each crowstepped gable is a
pedimented wooden tablet, originally with different inscriptions. Internal
stack to each cottage. Along Covert Road is kidney flint and brick boundary
wall, with a curved section between each pier filled by iron railings. The
main entrance piers take the form of brick turrets with conical plaintiled
roofs with metal capping. The turrets are corbelled out half way up and again
at eaves level. At the rear they are inscribed 'These cottages presented to
the town of Southwold by Andrew Matthews of The Elms Southwold'. Wrought iron
gates.
Listing NGR: TM5016977474
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