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TF 27 SW HEMINGBY MAIN STREET (west side) 1/5 Almshouses 14.9.66 G.V. II 5 almshouses. 1727, C20. Red brick. Pantile roof with stone coped gables and kneelers, 2 axial ridge stacks, single ridge stack. 2 storeys, 11 bay front with first floor brick band. Central doorway flanked by single windows, with a doorway beyond on each side and 2 windows beyond on each side and a single doorway beyond on each side. All the doorways with segmental heads and panelled door, the left hand doorway in a small, gabled C20 porch with a glazed door. All the ground floor windows with segmental heads and C20 cross mullion casements. 6 two light casements above. Ashlar plaque above central doorway inscribed: "The Hospital and School were erected in the year 1747 by Jane Dymoke Widow of the Hon. Charles Dymoke of Scrivelsby Esq Champion of England and endowed by her will and a yearly salary to a School Master and Mistress for teaching all the poor children in the Parish of Hemingby to read write and work and with competent provision of clothing for six of the said children and for putting some of them Apprentices and also yearly allowance for four poor widows Inhabitants of the County of Lincolnshire is appointed in her will". Listing NGR: TF2371874461

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