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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
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BZS24.jpg  Plaque:-
"WIDOWS HOSPITAL / BUILT BY T. PALMER / A.D. 1848." (taken 29.11.2013)  courtesy of a widow

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Yrk 63 3) 
placename:-  Widows Hospital
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.

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Palmers Hill
item:-  date stone (1848)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"PALMERS HILL / 1, 3 AND 5 / MAIN STREET / SEDBERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484632 / SD6561192143"
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."


photograph
BZS22.jpg (taken 29.11.2013)  courtesy of a widow

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