Ashbourne, Derbyshire

Ashbourne, Derbyshire.

 

Owfield's Almshouses, Church Street, Ashbourne, Derbyshire.

 

Founded 1640 and erected shortly afterwards.

 

Grade ll* listed.

 

See also for more information:-

 

www.andrewsgen.com/photo/derbyshire/ashbourne_church_stre...

 

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OWLFIELDS ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH STREET, ASHBOURNE, DERBYSHIRE

 

Grade: II*

 

List Entry Number: 1207678

 

 

Details

 

CHURCH STREET 1. 783 (South-East Side) Owlfield's Almshouses SK 14 NE 1/20 15.6.51. II* GV 2. Founded 1640 and erected shortly afterwards. Has much the same characteristics as Pegg's Almshouses (qv). Single storey and attics, the attic storey with 3 gabled dormers added 1848. 5 windows, 3 centre ones have coupled lights with mullions. 4-centred arches 2 of which are surmounted by panels bearing Latin inscriptions. Clustered stone stacks. Tiled roof with alternating double courses of curved and plain tiles. Coped gabled ends. Restored 1848.

 

Nos 38, 40 and 72, together with Pegg's Almshouses, Owlfield's Almhouses, The Mansion, the Summerhouse and the cobbled pavements form a group with the parish Church of St Oswald and the churchyard gate piers, gates and walls.

 

 

Listing NGR: SK1776446530

 

historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207678

 

 

See also for more information:-

 

her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR821

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