Ginge Petre Almshouses

Ginge Petre Almshouses is a terrace of almshouses and a Roman Catholic chapel built in 1840. It was renovated in 1978 by Trehearne and Norman Preston. The structure is made of red brick with black headers arranged in diaper patterns, featuring dressings of gault brick, and is roofed with fishscale slates. The terrace consists of four almshouses facing northwest, with the chapel located in the center, creating 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 the ends 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 eaves feature a dogtooth course, and the black headers are glazed. The diagonal chimney shafts are 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 displays the diaper pattern throughout, although a small area has been repaired with Flettons. The diaper pattern also continues on the original rear elevation, which has 20th-century casement windows.

The chapel features a gable wall that stands one brick forward of the rest of the front elevation, with two smaller windows in a similar style, a central door that matches the others, and a corbelled bell-turret that does not contain a bell. Inside, 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.