St John'S Homes

St John's Homes are almshouses founded in 1881 by Mrs. Anne Jane Charles Williamson for members of the Church of England. The building is constructed of red brick, with the ground floor covered in colour-washed plaster and red brick dressings, while the first floor features decorative tiles and some mock timber framing on the projecting gables. The roofs are made of clay tiles.

The structure is a two-storey, five-bay main block, flanked by single-storey, single-bay blocks to the west and east, the latter of which has a hipped roof. Designed in a neo-vernacular style, the main block has a unique bay window that is canted to the left side only, which is overhung by a large jettied gabled projection that includes a jettied attic. The first floor features a projecting four-light window supported by brackets.

In the attic, there is a crucifix at the centre, with the letters "A.M.D.C." incised in the bressumer below it. The first floor bressumer is inscribed with "In memoriam." Below the first floor window, there are four plasterwork panels; the two central panels display coats of arms, while the outer panels show "A.D." and "1881." Each end of the main block has a canted bay topped with a smaller gabled and jettied first floor that features a three-light projecting window.

The two recessed bays each have a three-light casement window with a cambered head on the ground floor, along with two small windows and one gabled projecting two-light window on the first floor. There is one three-light window on each side wing. The windows are casements, with the upper parts featuring glazing bars. The doors, arranged in a 1-2-1-1-2-1 pattern, consist of six panels with the top pair glazed and are topped with tiled porch canopies. The building also features a variety of tall multiple stacks and bargeboards on the gables. Anne Williamson, a widow, lived in the central first-floor flat.