Numbers 24-49 Including Wall, Piers And Railings To South, And Wall And Piers To North

Almshouses, dated 1868, designed by Lockwood and Mawson for Titus Salt as part of the Saltaire model village. Constructed of pitch-faced stone with a Welsh slate roof, the buildings form a symmetrical U-shaped layout around Alexandra Square in an Italianate style. The composition consists of one and two-storey sections with alternating gabled and entrance bays. The end blocks and four intermediate blocks are two-storied and gabled. The three-bay, two-storey central block has gabled outer bays featuring enriched tympana. Each tympanum includes a roundel displaying the initials 'T. S.' to the left and ‘C. S.’ to the right, along with the motto 'QUID NON DEO JUVANTE' supported by palm and oak leaves and a small alpaca crest. A central, square bell-turret rises from the central block, topped by a pediment inscribed 'OPENED / SEPTEMBER /1868'. Entrances are paired, featuring four-panel doors within open porches supported by central colonnettes. Windows are paired round-arched sashes, some with decorative friezes. Bracketed eaves and modillioned gables are present. Tall stacks with cornices are also a feature. The left and right returns, and the end blocks, are treated in a similar manner. In the porches of numbers 38 and 35, two upright stone slabs record the names of former residents; the first, dated 1868-75, bears the inscription 'HERE THE WICKED CEASE FROM TROUBLING AND THE WEARY BE AT REST,' and the second, dated 1875-78, reads 'BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD'. A wall runs along the south side, adjoining Bingley Road, featuring an ashlar coping, six square ashlar piers with decorated caps, and two lengths of square-section arcaded cast-iron railings supported by square cast-iron piers. A garden wall extends along the north side, facing Saltaire Road, including one pair of square ashlar gate piers and three single piers with decorated caps.