The Almshouses

The Almshouses are a group of almshouses built in 1873, as indicated by an inscribed stone. They are constructed from coursed rock-faced ashlar with dressed stone and feature a tiled roof, timber verandah, and dormers. The building has an L-shaped layout with seven irregular bays and a projecting two-bay chapel at the north end. The front has boarded doors set in pointed surrounds, flanked by six three-light mullioned windows and a single four-light mullioned window at the north end. There is a pointed service passage at bay two. The verandah is supported by turned wooden posts and rests on a coped dwarf wall. The roof dormers each contain three ogee-headed lights beneath timber-framed gablets with carved barge boards. The building features paired octagonal axial stacks and raised coped gables.

The chapel has a boarded door in a pointed arch to the right, with a two-light mullioned window to the left and an external stack with offsets beneath an octagonal flue at the center. A square bay contains a four-light mullioned window, with all lights featuring ogee arches. The gables are coped and adorned with ornate finials. An inscribed tablet on the external stack reads:

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN / MEMORY OF CHARLES LORD HOTHAM / THESE FOUR COTTAGES FOR THE / COMFORT OF THE AGED OR INFIRM OF / THIS UNITED PARISH OF DALTON HOLME / ARE BUILT BY HIS BROTHER A.D. 1873."

The west window of the chapel is pointed and consists of two lights with a transom; the lower lights have cinquefoil heads while the upper lights have trefoil heads.