Description

BATTERSEA PARK ROAD TQ 2776 (North side) 1207- /7/10025 No. 1 Dovedale Cottages GV II Almshouse. 1841 from funds donated by a Mrs Lightfoot and her daughter, Mary, for 'persons in reduced circumstances professing godliness'. White brick in Flemish bond with cement dressings, slate roof. Two storeys, rectangular in plan, originally with four rooms. Tudor revival style. All windows casements with small panes. Street elevation a single bay with 3-light first-floor window and blind rectangular panel to ground floor, apparently intended for a memorial inscription that was either never supplied or which has been effaced, window and panel alike in flat-arched openings with simply chamfered jambs and lintels. West return has single-storey entrance porch with door of original design under four-centred Tudor arch and windows to ground floor only; the east return with chimney stack to rear. Both returns are unfenestrated to first floor. No. 1 is the westernmost ofa range of almshouses.

Listing NGR: TQ2753476421

External Links

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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