Building record MLI34020 - Trollope Bedehouses, Bourne

Summary

Former almshouses on South Street, Bourne.

Type and Period (1)

  • (Post Medieval to Modern - 1636 AD to 2050 AD)

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Full Description

Tudor Cottages also known as Trollope Bedehouses, dated 1636. Brick, one storey, with dormers, stone quoins, and stone coped gables. Wooden mullion-and-transom cross windows. {1} William Trollope's 1636 will bequeathed £30 per annum, from rent in Weston, to six poor men. He propsed that convenient housing be built for them. The six men were selected from the poor, aged or decrepit men of Bourne. {2}

Sources/Archives (2)

  •  Bibliographic Reference: Nikolaus Pevsner and John Harris, with Nicholas Antram. 1989. Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (Second Edition). p.175.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Linda Crust. 2002. Lincolnshire Almshouses: Nine Centuries of Charitable Housing. p.29.

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Location

Grid reference Centred TF 09711 19922 (14m by 21m) Surveyed
Civil Parish BOURNE, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Aug 21 2023 10:12AM

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