Description

TQ3475
636-1/13/256
27/09/72

SOUTHWARK
CONSORT ROAD
(West side)
Beeston's Gift Almshouses

GV
II

Terrace of 7 almshouses in unified composition. 1834. For the
Girdlers' Company, 1834. Stucco with low-pitched slate roof
behind cornice and parapet with raised central section
inscribed: "Beeston's Gift Alms Houses". Tall, grouped,
hexagonal chimneys. Composition later enclosed on either side
of garden with separate 1-storey ranges (mid-C20).
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 12 bays, the outer bays gabled and
slightly set forward. Tudor-style doors beneath oblong panels
with ornamental shields alternate with ground-floor windows in
central 10-bay section. Square hood moulds to all ground-floor
openings and upper windows in gable ends. Tudor-style
mullioned and transomed 4-light windows with glazing bars,
those to ground-floor of gable ends 6-light. 1st-floor sill
string to central section.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3475175824

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665228

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock