The Salters' Company, Almshouses

The Salters' Company Almshouses, built in 1863 by T C Sorby, is a formal group of Gothic-style almshouses constructed from red brick and Bath stone, arranged around three sides of a courtyard. The buildings are highly picturesque, featuring one and two storeys with plain tile roofs and prominent chimneys. The long main range is mostly symmetrical, except for the central block, which has a crow-stepped gable and an asymmetrical tower. This tower is battlemented and includes an ornamental Gothic bell-opening above a clock and an armorial panel.

Central to the gable is a large oriel window, supported by a buttress below, with a damaged canopied niche above. On either side of the centre, there is a sequence of architectural features: an arcaded one-storey passage, a two-storey cottage with two gables and mullion and transom windows, a two-bay arcaded passage, two one-storey cottages with projecting gables and canted bay windows, another two-bay arcaded passage, and finally a two-storey cottage with two gables.

The side ranges consist of asymmetrical cottages, each gabled and two storeys high at the north end, with a two-bay arcade and one-storey gabled south end, designed similarly to the main range. The arcade features depressed arches with stone Gothic columns between each pair, and some sections display diaper work in blue brick. The almshouses were built to accommodate 12 females and 8 males.