Thorner's Homes, Oakley Road, Shirley, Southampton (SOU1549)
Southampton City Council Archaeology Unit, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5284/1039004. How to cite using this DOI
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Introduction
Southampton City Council Archaeology Unit carried out an archaeological building record at the Thorner’s Homes, Oakley Road, Shirley, Southampton on behalf of Mansell Partnership Housing. The property consisted of fifteen blocks of two storied flats, each containing four flats. They were purpose-built in 1932 as almshouses for the Thorner’s Charity and replaced a late-18th century almshouse in central Southampton. The Oakley road site was built in 1932 to designs by the firm of Aston Webb, and the contractor was Thomas Lowe of Burton on Trent. A monument designed by Eric Gill was included in the original design.
The flats were brick-built in a modern Arts and Crafts style. There were two basic types with some variations within the types. They were substantially altered internally in the early 1990s.
