Lady Hewleys Almshouses

Lady Hewley's Almshouses, located on St Saviourgate in York, were built in 1840 by JB Pritchett for the Trustees of Lady Hewley's Charity, with a 20th-century extension. This building serves as the warden's house for the almshouses and features attached gates, gate piers, and railings that form the entrance and the south-western boundary to the gardens surrounding the almshouses.

The house is constructed from tooled ashlar stone resting on an ashlar plinth, topped with a slate roof that has moulded stone coping and shaped kneelers. The front of the house is two storeys high and has three bays, with the centre bay gabled and a one-storey extension to the right. The centre bay features board double doors and a two-light window with pointed six-on-four pane hung sashes on the first floor, both set in openings with four-centred heads. The flanking bays have square-headed mullioned windows with paired eight-pane sashes, the ground floor windows being taller. All openings are double chamfered and have coved hoodmoulds, with a chamfered eaves course.

On the left side facing St Saviourgate, there is a two-storey gable wall. The ground floor window matches those on the main front, while the first-floor opening is blocked and features a reset tablet that records the original foundation of Lady Hewley's Hospital in Tanner Row in 1700. Below this is an inscribed stone noting the rebuilding of the Hospital in 1840.

The subsidiary features include gate piers that are approximately 1.5 metres high, topped with domed heads, flanking double gates made of square-section railings adorned with Tudor flower finials. The railings, designed similarly, are raised on a low wall with chamfered coping.