Description

1. LOWFIELD STREET
5274 (North-West Side)
Nos 41 and 43
(Almshouses)
TQ 5473 3/23 27.9.73.

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Dated 1889. Built by John Johnson in Queen Anne Dutch style on the site of 4 earlier
almshouses built by John Byer in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. 2 storeys. Built
of yellow brick with red cut brick dressings specially made to the design by the
Elham Valley Brick Company. Tiled roof with curved gable ends. 4 ornamental pediments,
2 of which are triangular and the centre 2 curved and incorporating the date AD
1889. Moulded brick eaves cornice. Moulded brick stringcourse between ground
and 1st floors with Anthemion motif. 4 double sashes to each floor set in moulded
architraves. Tablet between 2 centre lst floor windows records the earlier almhouses
on the site. Panels of swag moulding underneath 1st floor windows. The 2 doorcases
have stone open pediments, moulded architraves, rectangular fanlights and 6 fielded
panelled doors, the top 2 panels cut out and glazed. Plinth.

Listing NGR: TQ5412873878

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26606108

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)