Condlyffe Almshouses

LEEK

SJ95NE CONDLYFFE ROAD 611-1/1/50 (North West side) Condlyffe Almshouses

GV II

Almshouses. Dated 1882. Red brick with stone dressings and half-timbering in upper storeys, red plain-tiled roofs. Domestic Revival style. EXTERIOR: 2 identical blocks. Each block symmetrically planned with paired 2-storeyed central gables flanked by single-storey entrance blocks linked to low gabled outer wings. Central blocks have wide 3-light stone mullioned and transomed windows to ground floor, with stepped mullioned windows in attic storey above. Leaded glazing. Stone ribs and bands form hoodmould to lower windows. Half-timbering in upper storey. Overhanging eaves with finials and cresting to gable roofs. Stepped mullioned and transomed windows with leaded glazing in outer gables, with half-timbering in the apex above, and tiny leaded loft-lights. Triple doorways (renewed) in low blocks linking these gables. Axial stacks between central gables and to rear of outer gables, with moulded brick caps. Inscription on bargeboards of gables, partially mutilated, but recording 'the days of my labour o lord though hast blest. Blest be the hand .. the love .. and on the days of my rest'; 'the lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth for evermore'. INTERIOR: not inspected. The design of the almshouses was attributed to Norman Shaw by MH Miller, a local historian writing in 1891. (Miller MH: Olde Leek: Historical Biographical, Anecdotal and Archaeological: Leek: 1891-).

Listing NGR: SJ9846555956