The Old Almshouses

The Old Almshouses is a row of four houses that were originally almshouses, dating from the 18th century or earlier, with alterations and additions made in the 19th century. Built for the Nelthorpe Estate, the structure is made of coursed limestone rubble, featuring brick stacks and brick sections on the first floor of the wings, and is colour-washed throughout. The roofs are covered with pantiles.

The layout consists of a central two-room section with two entrances on the east front, flanked by three-room wings. There is a rear outshut to the central section, along with a pair of rear outshuts and entrances for each wing. The building is two storeys high, with three first-floor windows in the central section, and the wings have two-storey, single-window inner sections and single-storey, two-window outer sections. The central section projects slightly forward.

A projecting gabled porch is located to the left of the centre, featuring a blind chamfered four-centred arch panel at the front, which contains a small casement window and a panelled door to the left beneath a timber lintel. To the right of centre is a board door beneath a segmental brick arch. There are 12-pane sliding sash windows on either side of the porch, all beneath painted wooden hood-moulds. Each wing has three similar windows, and there are blocked openings beneath timber lintels visible in the wings.

On the first floor, there are 12-pane sliding sash windows with lintels at the eaves level. The first-floor sections have a cogged brick eaves cornice. The two-storey sections have end stacks, while the wings have axial stacks with an end stack on the right. The rear outshuts of the wings include gabled sections with blind four-centred arch panels. The wings, and likely the central section as well, were originally single-room almshouses.