The Old Almshouses

SE 9605-9705 SCAWBY CHURCH STREET (south side)

19/86 Nos 1-4 inclusive (The Old Almshouses)

GV II

Row of 4 houses, formerly almshouses. C18 or earlier origins with C19 alterations and additions. For Nelthorpe Estate. Coursed limestone rubble with brick stacks and brick first-floor sections to wings, colour-washed throughout; brick porch to front and outshuts to rear. Pantile roofs. Plan: central 2-room section with pair of entrances to east front, flanked by 3-room wings; rear outshut to central section, pair of rear outshuts and entrances to each wing. 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows to central section, flanked by wings with 2-storey, single-window inner sections and single-storey, 2-window outer sections. Central section breaks forward. Projecting gabled porch to left of centre with blind chamfered 4-centred arch panel to front containing small casement and panelled door to left side beneath timber lintel; board door to right of centre beneath segmental brick arch; 12-pane sliding sashes to either side beneath painted wooden hood- moulds. 3 similar windows to each wing. Blocked openings beneath timber lintels visible in wings. First floor: 12-pane sliding sashes with lintels at eaves level. Cogged brick eaves cornice to first-floor sections. End stacks to 2-storey sections; axial stacks to wings, with end stack to right. Rear outshuts to wings incorporate gabled sections with blind 4-centred arch panels. The wings, and probably also the central section, were formerly single-room almshouses.

Listing NGR: SE9689605533