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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26597316

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