98-110, HIGH STREET

This is a row of seven almshouses, now converted into four dwellings, dating from 1867. They were likely designed by G. Devey for Lady Susan Smith of Woodhall Park. The building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings, with some sections finished in roughcast with fake timber framing. The roof is decorated with tiles laid in alternating bands of plain and sawtooth patterns, and features ridge tiles. The building has a double depth plan, with a 1:2:1:2:1 layout and projecting cross wings at the centre and ends. It is built in a Domestic Revival style, with a single storey and an attic to the central bay.

Each cross wing has a ground floor canted oriel window supported by brackets. The windows are tall, four-light casements with ovolo moulded surrounds and stop-chamfered return angles. The central gabled attic has fake timber framing that is corbelled out, supported by a stone course below stone corbels, a four-light casement, a datestone, and wavy bargeboards. The outer gables also feature fake timber framing with slightly projecting moulded tie beams with quatrefoils and wavy bargeboards. The connecting ranges have three-light casements with chamfered, segmental-headed surrounds, and two-stage buttresses between them.

The entrances, located at the ends of the connecting blocks, consist of half-glazed doors with four-centred arched heads and moulded brackets supporting gabled and raking hoods. The chimneys are axial, with paired diagonal shafts on the connecting ranges, while the outer wings feature paired octagonal shafts. The taller central ridge has a stack with four semi-octagonal shafts. The rear elevation mirrors the front, constructed of brick with cross wings, entrances in the connecting ranges, and chimneys with paired diagonal shafts. The interior has not been inspected.