The Seymour Almshouses, Langley Marish, seen from the churchyard
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The Seymour Almshouses, Langley Marish, seen from the churchyard
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 15 Mar 2011
These little 17th century cottages (they date from about 1680) still serve much their original purpose - as accommodation for old people. Architecturally, the red-brick parts are vernacular in style, much as they would have been if built a century earlier. The chimney stacks are set diagonally, as they would have been in Tudor times. But the doorways and the two-storey porch are a bit more 'architectural' - there is some Classical influence. Those down-pipes seem a bit out of character - mightn't it be better to paint them black ? In earlier days there may have been chutes projecting from the eaves to throw rainwater clear - as at Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire: Image For a view from the road see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2309314
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