1-6, Bagsby Road Almshouses

The Bagsby Road Almshouses, numbered 1 to 6, were built in 1860 for Frances Sandars. They are constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with limestone ashlar, blue and yellow brick dressings, and a Welsh slate roof.

The building is rectangular in plan, with each house comprising two front rooms, a kitchen wing, and a rear yard. The south front is symmetrical, 17 bays wide, with gabled central and end bays projecting forward. The building sits on a chamfered plinth, and has steps leading to ashlar door surrounds with board doors on wrought-iron strap hinges. These doors are positioned beneath chamfered four-centred arches, featuring carved foliate spandrels within square-headed, chamfered reveals. The windows are mullioned, with two and three lights, each light containing three panes, set within chamfered reveals. There are similar three-light windows to the end bays, and a pair of single-light windows to the central bay. All window openings have quoined surrounds. The gabled bays feature flush yellow brick bands at eaves level. The central gable displays a lozenge panel bearing arms in relief, and a stone tablet carved with spandrels and a segmental-headed panel inscribed: "Frances Sandars dedicated these houses to Almighty God for ever AD 1860 for the benefit of Aged females.” The end gables each have a pair of octagonal ashlar panels beneath blue brick crosses. The gables are coped with shaped kneelers. The central gable has a carved finial of a seated old woman in a bonnet and apron, reading, while the end bays feature pointed carved finials. The steeply pitched roof is covered with banded plain and octagonal fish-scale slates. Corniced end and ridge stacks have pointed recessed yellow brick panels to the front, with alternating louvred cylindrical and crenellated octagonal pots. The almshouses remain in use. They are situated on a raised platform overlooking open fields, surrounded by a ha-ha faced with squared rock-faced limestone on its south and east sides.

Frances Sandars, a local benefactor, was also responsible for the Market Place Lamp and the churchyard archway, and made many gifts to the church.