Ginge Petre Almshouses Ginge Petre Chapel

Ginge Petre Almshouses and Chapel is a terrace of almshouses and a Roman Catholic chapel built in 1840. The buildings were renovated in 1978 by Trehearne and Norman Preston. They are constructed of red brick with black headers arranged in diaper patterns, featuring dressings of gault brick, and are roofed with fishscale slates. The terrace consists of four almshouses facing northwest, with the chapel at the center, forming the rear of a quadrangle that is enclosed on two sides by other terraces. The design is in the Tudor Revival style and is single-storey.

Nos 5 and 8, located at either end of the terrace, each have two original cast-iron latticed casement windows with chamfered jambs and segmental arches, along with a central boarded door that has vertical moulded fillets, chamfered jambs, and a 4-centred arch made of gault brick. Nos 6 and 7 are similar but each has only one window. The buildings feature a dogtooth eaves course, and the black headers are glazed. The chimney shafts are diagonal, made of red and black bricks arranged in a 1-2-2-1 pattern, and the ridge tiles are of red clay. The gables have copings and kneelers made of gault brick. The left gable end has three buttresses of red brick that cover the diaper pattern, while the right gable end is not buttressed and has a small area repaired with Flettons. The diaper pattern continues on the original rear elevation, where the rear windows are 20th-century casements.

The chapel features a gable wall that stands one brick forward from the rest of the front elevation, with two smaller windows in a similar style, a central door, and a corbelled bell-turret that does not contain a bell. The interior of the chapel is rectangular and plain, with a coved ceiling, a central panel outlined by plaster mouldings, and two plaster roses; the larger upper rose is white, while the smaller lower rose is painted red. There are rear extensions of red brick with slate roofs for Nos 6 and 7 that meet behind the chapel.