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The Alms House

A Grade II Listed Building in Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.6006 / 52°36'2"N

Longitude: -1.3861 / 1°23'9"W

OS Eastings: 441676

OS Northings: 300484

OS Grid: SK416004

Mapcode National: GBR 7L5.Y3J

Mapcode Global: WHDJD.PW5Q

Plus Code: 9C4WJJ27+6H

Entry Name: The Alms House

Listing Date: 7 November 1966

Last Amended: 13 October 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1074246

English Heritage Legacy ID: 188110

ID on this website: 101074246

Location: Sutton Cheney, Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire, CV13

County: Leicestershire

District: Hinckley and Bosworth

Civil Parish: Sutton Cheney

Traditional County: Leicestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Leicestershire

Church of England Parish: Market Bosworth St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Leicester

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Description


SUTTON CHENEY SK30 SW MAIN STREET (West Side)

5/114 The Alms House (formerly listed as The Alms Houses) 7.11.66

GV II

House, formerly six Alms Houses. 1612, altered early C19. Limestone, coursed and squared heightened in brick with plain tiled roof. Former paired doorways and 2-light stone mullioned windows, the central windows grouped in closely adjoining pairs. One central doorway still in use, the others blocked, but all have 3-centred arched heads. In the brick upper storey, small 2-light casement windows. Stone coped gables corbled out and in the right hand gable wall the nesting holes of a former attached dovecote. Axial stacks. Founded by Sir William Roberts.

Listing NGR: SK4167600484

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