Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
86789
Building Number
6
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/11/1974
Date of Amendment
10/11/2005
Name of Property
Trinity Almshouses
Address
6 Baker Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Abergavenny
Town
Abergavenny
Locality
Abergavenny
Easting
329660
Northing
214316
Street Side
NW
Location
Next to the Church of the HolyTrinity in a close-knit group.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Built in 1842 and designed by T H Wyatt. They were endowed in 1840 by Rachael Herbert for the benefit of single and widowed women. The almshouse appear to have been little altered since.
Exterior
Rear elevation not inspected.
Interior
Interior not inspected at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as early Victorian almshouses of definite character designed by T H Wyatt which, together with the Vicarage and the Church, forms a coherently designed group.
Group Description
Nos. 5-8 (consec) Trinity Almshouses, Baker Street
The almshouses are in two similar ranges, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 to the south of church, and Nos. 5, 6, 7 and 8 to the north. Built of coursed, squared, rock-faced sandstone with natural slate roofs. Double depth plan in a restrained Tudor style. Each range of one storey has four main windows with two shared porches which are entered by three Tudor arches, 2-centred ones flank a wider 4-centred one, decorative timber columns and spandrels. Tudor style planked doors inside porches and porch seats. Gables with scalloped bargeboards with central drop over main windows, which are 2-light mullion-and-transom casements. Fairly steeply pitched roofs with tall Tudor type chimneys with paired diamond set flues.
Holy Trinity Church, the Almshouses and the Vicarage form a coherently designed group.
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