1-7, Lumley Place

Nos. 1-7 Lumley Place is a row of seven almshouses for retired clergy, built around 1870 and attributed to architect John Douglas, though they differ from his usual style. Commissioned by the first Duke of Westminster, the almshouses are constructed of red-brown and yellow brick with a grey slate roof.

The building is two storeys high, with the first floor partly within the roof space. Each cottage features boarded doors with moulded vertical cover-strips set in camber-arched openings that lead into recessed porches. Each dwelling has a casement window with five iron lights, supported by brick mullions and cambered arches. There are brick pilasters between each cottage and at the ends, along with a brick sill band and a band above the openings. A corbelled first-floor band is located below a seven-course band that includes projecting brown-header lattice and yellow-brick lozenge panels. Each cottage has two round-arched casement windows with brick mullions, one with three lights and the other with two lights, featuring patterned leaded glazing in the arches.

Nos. 1 and 7 have cottage-width front gables, while each intermediate cottage has a dormer gable above the pair of casements. The gables display yellow-buff terracotta panels with incised designs of fleur-de-lys, roses, pies, and portcullises. The building has shaped purlin ends, three ridge chimneys, and a lateral chimney at the left end. The rear of the building lacks any individual features of special interest. The interiors were not inspected.