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| Palmers Hill, Sedbergh | ||
| Palmers Hill | ||
| Street:- | Main Street | |
| locality:- | Sedbergh | |
| civil parish:- | Sedbergh (formerly Yorkshire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | SD65619214 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD6592 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD69 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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 BZS23.jpg (taken 29.11.2013) courtesy of a widow  BZS24.jpg Plaque:- "WIDOWS HOSPITAL / BUILT BY T. PALMER / A.D. 1848." (taken 29.11.2013) courtesy of a widow |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Yrk 63 3) placename:- Widows Hospital |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Palmers Hill item:- date stone (1848) |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "PALMERS HILL / 1, 3 AND 5 / MAIN STREET / SEDBERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484632 / SD6561192143" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Row of 6 almshouses, now remodelled as 3. Dated 1848 on plaque in centre; altered. Pale sandstone and blue ragstone in alternating courses of rock-faced masonry, with punch-dressed sandstone quoins; graduated blue slate roof. Long rectangular double-depth plan, formerly one unit each but adjoining pairs now integrated. Simplified Jacobean style. Single storey, 9 windows; windows and doorways formerly alternated, with the window to the left of the doorway in each case, but the 2nd, 4th and 6th doorways have been altered as matching windows. All the openings have dressed lintels with cavetto hoodmoulds; the 3 remaining doorways are square-headed and have studded doors with strap-hinges and plain overlights; all the windows are cross-window casements. To the left of the window of No.3 is a rectangular plaque inscribed "WIDOWS HOSPITAL / BUILT BY / T.PALMER / AD 1848". Roof with oversailing eaves and verges, gable chimneys and 2 ridge chimneys." "INTERIOR not inspected." |
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 BZS22.jpg (taken 29.11.2013) courtesy of a widow |
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