The William Nuttall Cottage Homes conservation area, 1930, William Nuttall Trust, Bennetthorp Almshouses, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
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Tony Smith / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
P8DCT4File size:
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3024 x 3720 px | 25.6 x 31.5 cm | 10.1 x 12.4 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
10 July 2018Location:
Bennetthorp Almshouses, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK, DN2 6AQMore information:
The William Nuttall Cottage Homes are a good example of a planned development by a charitable benefactor, the sweet manufacturer William Nuttall. He set up a trust to provide 'cottage homes for aged spinsters' and the William Nuttall Trust purchased land in Bennetthorpe from the council on which to build these homes. The almshouses were erected in 1930, until then the area between Bennetthorpe and the racecourse had been relatively undeveloped. The cottage homes were laid out in the pattern of traditional almshouses of standard size set in communal grounds. The buildings comprise a symmetrical group of 24 two storey homes at the centre of which is a linked terrace of eight dwellings around a central archway. To each side are four pairs of homes, each advancing forwards. The buildings are of red engineering brick with stone and concrete dressings and have either 'Rosemary' plain clay tile or Westmoreland slate roofs. The buildings are not identical but have common features and display typical detailing and materials of the inter-war period. The whole site was bounded by a low brick wall with a central vehicular access and symmetrical pedestrian side access. The William Nuttall Cottage Homes development remains relatively unchanged and continues to have the use for which it was originally intended. Within the conservation area there are no listed structures but all the buildings are considered to be key unlisted buildings.