The Almshouses

EXTERIOR: the road front, of approximately 50 metres, has two storeys, both with walling of close-studded framing. The first floor is jettied, supported on joist ends with arched braces beside the entrances. There is a central Tudor-headed entrance with enriched spandrels and paired doors and a blocked entrance to left. There are seven pairs of doors with Tudor heads to the doorways and a further single doorway to the right hand end, all with renewed plank doors. That to No.1 has a moulded architrave with mason's mitres. Windows, mostly of three lights with leaded glazing, placed in pairs between the doors. At first floor level there are shallow, four by four-light oriels over the central entrance and flanking each pair of entrances. No.1 has a three-light window to the ground floor. Stacks have two shafts and there is an end stack to No.1. The rear is believed to have had an open first floor gallery, now replaced by a C20 brick rear range.

INTERIOR: exposed timber-framing and chamfered beams; two stairs to upper rooms flanking central entrance passage.

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/02/2012

(Formerly listed as Nos 1-10, 12-22 (Consecutive) and 24, The Almshouses

(Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (East side) Nos.1-11 (Consecutive) The Almshouses)