Ginge Petre Almshouses

Ginge Petre Almshouses is a terrace of almshouses built in 1840, located on Roman Road in Ingatestone. The building was renovated in 1978 by Trehearne and Norman Preston. It features red brick with black headers arranged in diaper patterns, and gault brick dressings, topped with a roof of fishscale slates. The single-storey terrace consists of four almshouses facing northeast, forming one side of a quadrangle with additional terraces to the northeast and east.

In the Tudor Revival style, each house has two original cast-iron segmental arches made of gault brick, a central boarded door with vertical moulded fillets, chamfered jambs, and a 4-centred arch of gault brick. The eaves display a dogtooth pattern, and the black headers are glazed. The diagonal chimney shafts are constructed of red and black bricks in a 2-2-1 arrangement, with ridge tiles made of red clay.

The right gable facing Roman Road features moulded copings and kneelers made of limestone, a similar casement window, and a limestone tablet inscribed with 'Rebuilt by the Right Honourable William Lord Petre A.D. 1840', along with the initials J.C. inscribed in a gault brick corbel below the shaft. There are also two red brick buttresses that cover the diaper pattern. The left gable end has gault brick copings and kneelers, and includes a lean-to boiler house of red brick with a slate roof, built in 1978. The diaper pattern of black headers continues on the gable ends and the rear elevation, while the rear windows are 20th-century casements.