Listed Building record MDO14535 - 1-4 Turners Close, Trent

Two ranges of almshouses, facing across a courtyear, and dated 1846. The buildings have walls of coursed rubble-stone walls and scale-tiled roofs.

(ST 59071861) Almshouses [NAT] (1)

Turner's Almshouses built in 1846 are one-storey and contain four dwellings in two rectangular blocks facing each other across a central courtyard. (2,3)

National Record of the Historic Environment, 1001625 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 256-7 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(4) Turner's Almshouses, 150 yards N.E. of the church (Plate 208), are of one storey and contain four dwellings; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are tiled. They were built in 1846 and consist of two rectangular blocks facing one another N. and S. across a small courtyard; the E. and W. sides are closed by screen walls each with a central gateway with four-centred head and moulded coping above. The E. and W. ends of the blocks are gabled and have flat copings and terminal crosses; in the N.W. gable is an inscription panel only partly legible, "[Bui]l[t] [an]d Endowed in the Year of Our Lord 1846". The windows consist of two four-centred lights in a square head with a label over; the chimneys have octagonal shafts. In the middle of the yard is an octagonal well-head with panelled sides and ogee-shaped panelled top and finial.’

<2> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 429 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1973 (Map). SWX1197.

(ST 59071861) Almshouses [NAT]

Record last edited

Aug 22 2024 3:36PM