Listed Building: ALMSHOUSES INCLUDING FRONT WALL (107450)

WIMBORNE ST GILES SU 0311 WIMBORNE ST GILES' VILLAGE 13/115 Almshouses including front wall (formerly listed as 18.3.55 the Almshouses) GV II* Range of 10 almshouses with central common room, c. 1624. Flemish-bond brickwork with tiled roof having end stone copings and brick kneelers. Heavy, moulded brick cornice. Diagonally set, paired brick stacks with moulded caps between almshouses. Single storey, 10 window range. Moulded, square-headed, 2-light stone mullioned windows. Paired ashlar doorways with depressed 4-centred heads and plank doors. Central former common room has an ashlar loggia of 3 round arches. The common room range is gabled above and bears a central cartouche of arms flanked by square-headed casement windows. The central doorway from the loggia to the former common room is highly ornate having a surround with arabesques to the uprights and palmette above. The doorway has moulded stiles and rails and a round-headed open panel above containing a fretwork panel with a carved grotesque mask. (RCHM, Dorset, vol V, p 94, no. 2). Listing NGR: SU0317011984

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