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One of the few
Parishes to have a Workhouse so early in Babergh Hundred, was
at Assington
Assington Workhouse,
Further Street (A134)
1774 -1834
Photograph taken 2006
A timber-framed
and plastered house with C18-C19 external
features but possibly refronting an earlier timber-frame. 2
storeys and attics. 4 window range, casements with glazing
bars. Boarded doors. Roof tiled, with 1 central gabled
dormer on the north-east front. On the south-east side there
are 3 external chimney stacks.
1834 sold and converted into two cottages.
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WORKHOUSE ESTIMATE
FOR SECOND BUILDING
1783:- An estimate of Building a Workhouse at Assington, 52 ft long,18
ft wide 15 ft high, to be daubed and thatched with garrets over the
whole house according to a plan delivered.
| To 37.5 square of new
frameing ye house & raising at £1-10s per square………… |
£56.5.0 |
| To 18.75 square of frameing
ye two floors at £2 per square …………… |
£37.10.0 |
| To 15 square of partitions,cieling
joice on garrets; & ashlerings to ditto at £1 per square…………………… |
£15.0.0 |
| To 124 ft eyes board
put on at 1.5d (per) ft…………… |
£0.15.6 |
| To 15 square of inch
deall flooring to. chambers & garrets at £l-5s-per square……… |
£18.15.0 |
| To two pair of inch
deall stairs ……………………………………… |
£3.0.0 |
| To 12, new window-frames
& Cavings to DITTO at 6/6d each………… |
£3.18.0 |
| To 11 new doors &
hangen splines at 8/- each…………………… |
£4.8.0 |
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To 11 pair joints
at 1/-. pair & 11 thum latches at 8d each and two stock locks
3/-……………………
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£1.1.4 |
Bricklayers work
| To 280 ft of underpining
at 6d ft ……………………………………… |
£7.0.0 |
| To building ye chimney
to working room …………………………… |
£11.0.0 |
| To 96 yds of paving
ye floors with lumps at 1/8d yd…… |
£8.0.0 |
| To 200 yds
larth & plaster-to partitions,cieling to garrets and ashlerings
at 1/- per yd ……………… |
£10.0.0
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| To 203 yds of Clay walls
& insiding .ye same 1/- yd……………… |
£10.3.0 |
| To 17.5 square of thatching
at 10s per square ………………… |
£8.15.0 |
| To 12 iron casements
£4-4-0 & 90 sadle barrs........................... |
£0-18-9 |
| Painting ye windows
& front door............................. |
£1-0-0 |
| To 178 ft glasing 10d
ft £6-13-6……………………………… |
£12.16.3 |
| End Chimney…………………………………………………………………………… |
£6.0.0 |
| Addition to tyling……………………………………………………………… |
£15.8.0 |
| TOTAL ............................................................................... |
£214.7.1 |
Quary, if not the working room floor,
to be part laid with oak, if so the gentlemen agree to allow the difference
Nov 26th,1785 to the officers & parishioners of the parish of Assington,
has agreed & lett unto Isc Strutt of Boxford,to build a workhouse
according to this estimate. Whole account to be two hundred & fourteen
pounds, the building to be finish'd and fit to inhabit by Midsummer
next, the mony to be paid when finished,as mentioned above, Isc Strutt
agrees to build a privy into the above bargain.
However documents in Bury Records Office
indicate the building constructed in 1783 at a cost of £229 15s
1d ?
Witnessed by:-
Nath Consein and John Death (ChurchWardens)
William Sandle and Thomas Underwood
(Overseers)
Inhabitants:- C Gurdon, George
Watkinson's mark X, John Godfrey, Joseph Parker and William Firman
Heart of our History by Ashley Cooper
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