Building record 0101000000 - DORMER'S HOSPITAL, WING
Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- Listed Building (II) 1115986: NOS 12-18 (EVEN) AYLESBURY ROAD
Map
Type and Period (1)
- ALMSHOUSE (Dated 1569, 16th Century to Modern - 1500 AD to 1945 AD)
Description
Dimensions - Length 0024 m Width 0008
Plan Form - RECTANGULAR
Grade II. Four almshouses founded in 1569 by Dame Dorothy Pelham, wife of Sir William Dormer, as recorded by former inscription tablet. Altered C19, refurbished 1982. Coursed rubble stone, chamfered brick surrounds to openings. Old tile roof, brick coped gables with shaped stone kneelers, rebuilt flanking and central brick chimneys each with 2 square shafts linked at the top. Rendered dormers with similar coped gables and kneelers. One storey and attic, 4 bays. C20 leaded casements with depressed heads, 3-light to ground floor with rendered panels above, 2-light in attic dormers. Pairs of board doors between bays 1 and 2 and between bays 3 and 4, each door with 4-centred chamfered brick arch. 1982 inscription tablet to centre in moulded stone frame. Small lean-to extensions to rear. RCHM II p. 336 Mon. 6 (B7).
Hospital or alms-house for eight poor men and women. It contains four tenements, each intended for two persons, with a small garden to each. Sir William Stanhope added some houses to the original endowment (B2).
At NGR (B5).
Sources (7)
- <1>SBC7703 Bibliographic reference: LIPSCOMB 3 P525.
- <2>SBC14316 Bibliographic reference: SHEAHAN P787.
- <3>SBC13002 Bibliographic reference: RCHM BUCKS 2 P787.
- <4>SBC15580 Bibliographic reference: VCH BUCKS 3 P450.
- <5>SBC10481 Map: OS 1980 1:2500 MAP.
- <6>SBC11752 Bibliographic reference: PEVSNER N 1960 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE P296.
- <7>SBC19252 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1984. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Buckinghamshire: Aylesbury Vale District: Parishes of Aston Abbotts &C. p50.
Location
Grid reference | SP 88300 22459 (point) |
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Civil Parish | WING, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire |
Finds (0)
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Events/Activities (1)
- Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC13573)
Record last edited
Sep 21 2020 12:37PM