The Allgood Cottages

The Allgood Cottages are a pair of almshouses built in 1908, although they were inscribed as the gift of George Allgood in October 1906. Constructed from ashlar with half-timbered gables and a Lakeland slate roof, these single-storey, semi-detached cottages consist of six bays in total. The outer bays feature plank doors and small-paned casement windows. The roof extends over these bays to create porches, which are supported at the corners by chamfered piers with broached angle buttresses. The two central bays project under half-timbered cross gables and include canted bay windows. Between these bay windows is a panel displaying the date and inscription, framed by bolection moulding and beneath the Allgood crest. The cottages have a gabled roof with deep eaves and two rendered ridge stacks with wide cornices.