Description

1.
4415 BRUCE GROVE N17
(East Side) )
Tottenham
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TO 3390 17/19 24.5.7l. The Drapers' Almshouses
[Nos 1 to 44 (consec)]
Chapel at Drapers Almshouses

II GV

2.
Circa 1870, formerly the Sailmaker's Almshouses. The buildings form 3 sides of a
courtyard with detached wings. 2 storey cottages with 1 window each. Slate roofs
with ornamental cresting. Yellow stock brick with stone dressings, red brick eaves
cornice and band at lst floor level. Square-headed, recessed sash windows with stone
heads and recessed brick aprons. lst floor gabled dormer windows with brick relieving
arches over head. Moulded brick chimneys. Each pair of houses share a wooden porch
with a hipped roof. Gauged flat brick arches to recessed doorways with panelled
doors. In centre of east side, gabled Gothic chapel with pointed traceried windaws
and stone 3 bay portico with pierced parapet over. Wooden bell turret with slated
roof at apex of gable. Ornamental cast iron rainwater heads.

The Drapers Almshouses and lodge form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ3352690564

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26351297

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