Forecourt Wall, Piers And Railings To North Of Trafalgar Square Almshouses

The forecourt wall, piers, and railings to the north of the Trafalgar Square Almshouses were built around 1840 for the Trustees of the Muster Roll. The front wall is pebbledashed, while the left yard wall is made of rubble with brick coping, and the right yard wall features brick with an ashlar door lintel and coping. The gate piers are rendered, with ashlar piers at the outer ends of the railings and a brick pier on the right side. The low front walls, now pebbledashed, have elliptical-section stone coping and end in four tall square stone piers, which include a plinth, cornice, and blocking course. To the left, there is a rubble wall with 20th-century gabled brick coping, and to the right, a brick wall with flat stone coping that ends in a tall square pier connecting it to the yard wall of the caretaker's cottage of Holy Trinity. This right wall features a central projection with a flat stone lintel over a blocked door. The gates and railings have been renewed.