Condlyffe Almshouses

Condlyffe Almshouses are dated 1882 and are built in red brick with stone dressings and half-timbering in the upper storeys, featuring red plain-tiled roofs. They are designed in a Domestic Revival style and consist of two identical blocks. Each block is symmetrically planned with paired two-storeyed central gables flanked by single-storey entrance blocks that connect to low gabled outer wings.

The central blocks have wide three-light stone mullioned and transomed windows on the ground floor, with stepped mullioned windows in the attic storey above, all featuring leaded glazing. Stone ribs and bands form hoodmoulds over the lower windows, and there is half-timbering in the upper storey. The eaves are overhanging and decorated with finials and cresting on the gable roofs. The outer gables also have stepped mullioned and transomed windows with leaded glazing, half-timbering in the apex above, and tiny leaded loft-lights.

There are triple doorways, which have been renewed, in the low blocks linking the gables. Axial stacks are located between the central gables and at the rear of the outer gables, featuring moulded brick caps. An inscription on the bargeboards of the gables is partially mutilated but records phrases such as "the days of my labour o lord though hast blest" and "the lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth for evermore." The design of the almshouses is attributed to Norman Shaw by MH Miller, a local historian writing in 1891. The interior has not been inspected.