Building record 0101000000 - DORMER'S HOSPITAL, WING

Dimensions - Length 24m, Width 8m.
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).



(SP 88302246) Almshouses (NAT) (B8).
Dormer's Hospital, 300 yds SE of Wing Church. RCHM and VCH state that the inscription on the front wall dates the foundation to 1569. The latter points out that Sir William Dormer, to whom the hospital was dedicated, did not die until (B3 and B4).
Authy 4 states the inscription reads 1590, and that the building was partly rebuilt in the 19thc (B7).
Dormer's Hospital (name plaque), almshouses as described. Externally, essentially 19thc (B9).

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