Brewers' Almshouses

BREWERS' ALMSHOUSES, 99-109, BLANCHE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1103556
Date first listed:
12-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Brewers' Almshouses
Statutory Address:
BREWERS' ALMSHOUSES, 99-109, BLANCHE LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1103556
Date first listed:
12-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Brewers' Almshouses
Statutory Address 1:
BREWERS' ALMSHOUSES, 99-109, BLANCHE LANE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BREWERS' ALMSHOUSES, 99-109, BLANCHE LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Hertsmere (District Authority)
Parish:
South Mimms and Ridge
National Grid Reference:
TL 22200 01229

Details

TL 20 SW POTTERS BAR BLANCHE LANE (East side) South Mimms

4/187 Nos. 99-109 (odd) - (Brewers' Almshouses)

GV II

Row of 6 almshouses. 1856 on gable ends. Grey brick with red brick dressings. Slate roof. 4 tall regularly spaced stacks with stone coped parapets on roof divide elevation into 3. 1 storey. In each section is a pair of entrances each with a pointed arch and quoined and chamfered red brick surround. Timber plank doors. Flanking each pair of doors are 3 light casement windows with quoined and chamfered surrounds, rubbed brick heads and stone sills. Dentilled brick course below close eaves. 3 louvred lucarnes. Brick kneelers. End stacks corbelled out from walls with carved arms in panels. 3 flat roofed extensions to rear. Interior not inspected. The Brewers' Almshouses founded in 1687 moved here from Kitts End in 1856. (VCH Middlesex 1976). Included for group value and historic interest.

Listing NGR: TL2220001229

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
164239
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cockburn, J S, King, H P F, McDonnell, K G T, The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex, (1976)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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