Newburn Almshouses

The Newburn Almshouses, built in 1870 by R.J. Johnson at the expense of Hugh Taylor, consist of 12 almshouses designed for six inhabitants from Newburn, three from Earsdon, and three from Shilbottle. Constructed from brick, they feature an ashlar-coped plinth, bands, and dressings, topped with a graduated Lakeland slate roof adorned with ornamental ridge tiles and stone gable copings. The building is one storey high with attics, and each house has three bays.

Each house has a six-panelled door with overlights set in chamfered elliptical-headed surrounds in the outer bays, with paired doors for the intermediate houses. There are two deeply-recessed sashes with elliptical heads and lower glazing bars, and an ashlar string course above the door lintels. Sill bands run along the ground floor and beneath the paired sashes located under the gables of the second house from each end. The gables are shaped on the returns, and there is a stone inscribed in a scrolled frame above the central pair of doors. The roof features hipped dormers with casement windows, except in the gables, and tall corniced and banded brick chimneys. An enamel street name is located to the left, and each pair of doors is accessed by stone steps with iron foot scrapers.