Numbers 1-4 Almshouses (Including Attached Walling And Gateway On Covert Road Frontage)

Numbers 1-4 Almshouses are a group of four identical cottages built in 1908, arranged around a small green and connected by low walling. The main entrance features turrets on either side, which are inscribed with the words 'The Rest for the Aged'. The cottages are constructed of red brick with dark headers and have plaintiled roofs. They are single storey with a T-shaped plan, hipped roofs, and weatherboarded gablets on the main block, while the crowstepped gable ends are set forward. Each cottage has casement windows with square-leaded panes and segmental arches, along with boarded and battened entrance doors. Each crowstepped gable includes a pedimented wooden tablet that originally had different inscriptions. There is an internal stack in each cottage.

Along Covert Road, there is a boundary wall made of kidney flint and brick, featuring a curved section between each pier filled with iron railings. The main entrance piers are designed as brick turrets topped with conical plaintiled roofs and metal capping. These turrets are corbelled out halfway up and again at the eaves level. At the rear, the turrets are inscribed with 'These cottages presented to the town of Southwold by Andrew Matthews of The Elms Southwold'. The entrance is marked by wrought iron gates.