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The Widows' House — Dublin Road

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The Widows' House — Dublin Road
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Detached five-bay single-storey former almshouse, dated 1919, on site of earlier almshouse, 1590, on a symmetrical plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to centre. Extensively renovated, c.1960, to accommodate residential use. Gable-ended roof (gabled to porch). Replacement artificial slate, c.1960, in diamond-pattern courses. Red clay ridge tiles. Red brick chimney stack. Timber eaves and bargeboards. Iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls on a red brick plinth. Unpainted. Cut-stone date stone/plaques (one possibly salvaged from earlier building on site). Red brick dressings to porch including quoins to corners with timber frame dressings to gable having round-headed recessed niche with statuary. Square-headed window openings remodelled, c.1960. Concrete sills. Replacement timber casement windows, c.1960. Round-headed door opening. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1960, with sidelights and fanlight. Set back from road in own grounds. Roughcast boundary wall to forecourt with roughcast piers.

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