Offley Almshouses And Front Boundary Wall

SJ 74 SE MADELEY C.P. STATION ROAD

5/62 Nos. 1 to 11 (incl.) (Offley Almshouses) and front boundary 17/11/66 wall (formerly listed as Almshouses)

GV II

Row of almshouses, originally 10 in number, now 11. 1645, remodelled and extended 1889 and again restored in 1968 (see inscription panels between Nos. 6 and 7). Purplish-brown brick (mixed bonds), plain tile roof and 5. ridge stacks. 2 storeys with continuous dentil eaves cornice; 10 windows across first floor, 2-light late C19 leaded casements, those to ground floor. under segmental heads; plain boarded doors in pairs under 6 hip-roofed porches supported by wooden pillars on low brick walls. No.1 (at right-hand end) is set back from the rest and is an addition of 1889 in similar style. To the front of'the almshouses a low brick wall with stone capping. The almshouses were endowed and built under the terms of the will (1645) of Sir John Offley of Madeley, and were extended and improved by Hungerford, Baron of Crewe in 1889. B.O.E., p.200.

Listing NGR: SJ7724244196