Linsdall'S Hospital And Flanking Walls

Linsdall's Hospital, built in 1843 for Phoebe Linsdall, consists of almshouses with later 19th-century additions to the rear and flanking walls. The building is constructed of red and yellow brick in a contrasting Flemish bond and features a Welsh slate roof. Each almshouse has a single room with a front entrance and a kitchen outshut at the rear. It is a single-storey structure with four windows, flanked by two-bay screen walls that curve forward towards the street. The doors are 20th-century half-glazed with plain overlights, and the windows are 12-pane sashes set in flush wooden architraves beneath rubbed-brick flat arches. A central plaque reads: "LINSDALL'S HOSPITAL BUILT & ENDOWED A.D. 1843." The building has a moulded wooden eaves cornice, deep eaves, and a hipped roof, with a large central axial stack and two smaller axial stacks on either side. The screen walls are set back on each side, with an early inner section featuring a recessed round-arched panel and brick coping that ramps down to a square stone-coped pier, along with a board pedestrian gate. The later outer section has brick coping between similar square stone-coped piers. Inside, there are six fielded-panel doors.