Newburn Almshouses

NZ 16 NE NEWBURN HIGH STREET (north side) Newburn

7/34 Newburn Almshouses 7 July 1982

G.V. II

12 almshouses, 1870 by R.J. Johnson at the expense of Hugh Taylor for 6 inhabitants of Newburn, 3 of Earsdon and 3 of Shilbottle. Brick with ashlar-coped plinth, bands and dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof with ornamental ridge tiles and stone gable copings. One storey and attics; 3 bays to each house. 6-panelled doors and overlights in chamfered elliptical-headed surrounds in outer bays and paired to intermediate houses; elliptical heads to 2 deeply-recessed sashes with lower glazing bars; ashlar string to door lintels; sill bands to ground floor and to paired sashes under gables of second house from each end. Shaped gables on returns, on rear of first bay and above central pair of doors, the latter containing inscribed stone in scrolled frame. Roof has hipped dormers with casement windows except in gables; tall corniced and banded brick chimneys. Enamel street name at left. Iron foot scrapers on stone steps to each pair of doors.

Listing NGR: NZ1686565291