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Latitude: 51.2474 / 51°14'50"N
Longitude: 1.2321 / 1°13'55"E
OS Eastings: 625663
OS Northings: 154761
OS Grid: TR256547
Mapcode National: GBR W00.LBQ
Mapcode Global: VHLGQ.9XQ5
Plus Code: 9F3366WJ+WR
Entry Name: The Gabriel Richards Almshouses
Listing Date: 13 October 1952
Last Amended: 3 December 1986
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1070263
English Heritage Legacy ID: 177969
ID on this website: 101070263
Location: Goodnestone, Dover, Kent, CT3
County: Kent
District: Dover
Civil Parish: Goodnestone
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Tagged with: Almshouse
GOODNESTONE THE STREET
TR 25 SE
(east side)
3/108 The Gabriel Richards
Almshouses (formerly listed
13.10.52 as Almshouses)
GV II*
Almshouses. Mid C17, extended C18. Red brick and plain tiled roof. The
C18 wing of 2 storeys and hipped roof with stacks to rear left and to
rear right. Two leaded 3 light wooden casements on each floor, with
segmental heads on ground floor, and central segmentally headed boarded
door. C17 range: entrance front of 2 storeys on plinth with plat band
and moulded dogtooth eaves cornice. Two large stacks project at left and
at right, each with 2 star-shaped moulded flues. Irregular fenestration
of wooden casements with 2 light rendered brick mullioned window over door
to centre left, the door with flat hood on brackets with side screens.
More rendered mullioned windows, irregularly placed on rear elevation.
Shaped gable to left, with giant pilasters to left and right, with full
entablature in brick supporting broken segmental pediment with a pediment
thrusting upwards through it, possibly copying the pattern at Broome Park
(1635-8). The charity was endowed by Gabriel Richards in his will dated
1671, but the building was already standing. The charity was for 4 aged
decayed gentlemen or gentlewomen, born in Kent, and with preference to his
own relations. (See B.O.E. Kent II 1983, 335-6; see also Hasted, IX, 247;
see also Gabriel Richard's monument in Church of the Holy Cross, Goodnestone.)
Listing NGR: TR2541554411
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