1 The Almshouses are built of coursed square limestone with very thin alternate courses and red sandstone dressings except two which are white. They are in two parts; the ...
Almshouses, houses which were built to house poor people during the Post Medieval period. They are situated in Birdingbury Road, Leamington Hastings. The almshouses were largely restored during the 1980s.
1 Lawrence Sheriffe in 1567 made provision for 4 distinct lodgings for 4 poor men. On his death in the same year, the trustees… appointed four almsmen and placed ...
The site of almshouses, houses built for poor people to live in, dating to the Post Medieval and Imperial periods. Several of the almshouses were converted from a building that was the original Rugby School. The almshouses were located in Church Street, Rugby.
1 A will, dated 1530, ordered that a hospital should be built in Astley, but it is doubtful if this was done.
2 Noted.
The possible site of a Post Medieval hospital at Astley. The existence of the hospital is suggested by documentary evidence. The exact location of its site is unknown.
1 Almshouses; originally 6 but now 3 houses. Dated 1728. Founded by James Gramer. Some mid/late 20th century alterations. Whitewashed brick with wood dentil cornice. ...
Gramer's Almshouses, houses built for poor people to live in. They were built during the Post Medieval period, and are situated on Mancetter Road, Mancetter.
1 Almshouses are thought to have been built on the site in the mid 17th century. By 1788 the almshouses formed part of Thomas Puckerings Charity and lay within ...
Almshouses at Saltisford, formed in 17th century destroyed in late 1960's. Site lies just west of the old St Michael's Chapel and 25 meters southwest of the old leper hospital.
1 The springs at Bishopton were first brought to the attention of the public by Dr Charles Perry in 1744. The spring is situated in a field called Shottery. The ...
The site of Bishopton Spa, comprising of baths and a well. The spa was in use during the Post Medieval and Imperial periods and is known from documentary evidence. It was situated 400m west of Mt Pleasant Farm.
1 Thomas Newcomb the younger, gave by his last Will, dated March 2nd 1690, 600 pounds for the building of an almshouse, and the maintenance of six poor men or ...
A row of almshouses, houses that were built for poor people to live during the Post Medieval period. They are situated on Rugby Road, Dunchurch.
1 Farm buildings are marked at this site on an estate map of 1768. The adjacent field is named Barn Close, perhaps suggesting that there was an earlier tithe ...
Farm dating to at least 18th century, it is a regular U-plan type with detached farmhouse. The buidlings were converted and adapted for other uses in the 20th century and were demolished in 2003. The site is located on Bennet's Lane in Keresley.
1 This group of buildings consists of Nos 1-2, 3-6, 7-10 Castle Hill, two storey almshouses dated 1696. Nos 1-5 are of 17th century brick with a continuous stone ...
Oken's and Gifflet's Almshouses, built in the Post Medieval period to provide housing for the poor. There have been some alterations to the buildings which are situated in Castle Hill, Warwick.
1 Probably originally Almshouses. The buildings are two storey, built in local white lias stone with brown Horton quoins and dressings. The rear wings are timber framed with ...
Range of 17th century cottages found along the north side of the Market Place.
1 John and Catherine Bird in their lifetime gave £50 on the understanding that on Catherin’es death, land should be purchased with the sum. In 1669, a house, garden, orchard ...
A cottage, subsequently subdivided, and associated land was purchased with a bequest from the Birds for the poor of Rowington, in 1669. The cottage was condemned and demolished in the 1960s.
1 A row of three small, stone built Almshouses, of one storey with attics, with gabled dormers in the tiled roof. They have square headed doorways with oak frames, ...
Three stone-built almshouses which were constructed during the Post Medieval period for poor people to live in. They are situated in Station Road, Church End.
1 The car park for the present Health Centre is on the site of the Bedworth Central School (formerly the Top School). This school was built over the old ...
The site of Post Medieval almshouses, houses built for poor people to live in. The almshouses have also been referred to as a hospital. They were situated to the south of All Saints Church, Bedworth.
Sir Thomas Puckering (1592-1637) owned the Priory in Warwick, now the site of Warwickshire County Record Office. He was the MP for Tamworth and Sheriff of Warwickshire, and his memorial ...
January can be a difficult time. The third Monday of January has been named ‘Blue Monday’ and is considered one of the most depressing days of the year. Christmas is ...
This almshouse was founded in 1529 by William Ford, a wool merchant, for five men and their wives. The Hospital came under threat after the Reformation, with the crown claiming ...
The Almshouses at Shustoke were founded in 1699 by Thomas Huntbach the younger of Shustoke Hall, who died in 1712. They form a handsome row of stone cottages and are ...
The founder
Nicholas Eyffler was a glass maker from Germany who worked at Charlecote and Kenilworth Castle. Warwickshire County Record Office has a fine collection of documents about him; including his ...
There are two sets of almshouses in Mancetter.
Cramer’s Almshouses
These were founded by James Cramer, a local man who made his fortune in London as a goldsmith. The building was erected ...
The almshouses were founded in the 1570s by Thomas Oken, who has been called ‘Warwick’s most famous son’. He was a silk merchant – a self-made man without children who ...
Nicholas Chamberlaine, rector of Bedworth, founded this almshouse in 1715. He declared in his will: ‘I, having no child, do dispose of my estate to the charitable uses following’. His ...
1 These houses, Nos 9-15 Brook Street, were built in 1634 at the bequest of Thomas Puckering so that tradesmen could take in poor youths as apprentices, at a nominal ...
The site of Puckering Almshouses, built in the Post Medieval period to provide cheap accommodation for apprentices. They were demolished in 1950. They were located in Brook Street, Warwick.
