Dunton'S Almshouses

Dunton’s Almshouses, on Crown Street in Dedham, is a red brick building dating from 1806, built as a replacement for earlier almshouses. The building comprises a long range with Nos 3 to 7 featuring tall gables and a pegtiled gambrel roof. Five modern doors and seven pairs of modern casement windows are present. The end ranges are lower, with ridge and gable roofs and one red brick chimney each, and incorporate two plain doors and four casement windows. A tablet indicates that the original almshouses were founded by the will of Mr Stephen Dunton in 1517 and endowed by Mr William Littlebury in 1571. The building was modernised in 1966. The brickwork is constructed using a Flemish bond.