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

TM 57 NW 5/27

REYDON COVERT ROAD Nos.1-4 (inc.) Almshouses (including attached walling and gateway on Covert Road frontage)

II

Group of almshouses, comprising 4 identical cottages arranged around a small green and linked by low walling. Dated 1908 on turrets either side of main entrance, together with the inscription 'The Rest for the Aged'. Red brick with dark headers; plaintiled roofs. Single storey. Each cottage has a T shape plan: hipped roof with weatherboarded gablets to main block, crowstepped gable end set forwards. Casement windows with square-leaded panes, segmental arches; boarded and battened entrance doors. In each crowstepped gable is a pedimented wooden tablet, originally with different inscriptions. Internal stack to each cottage. Along Covert Road is kidney flint and brick boundary wall, with a curved section between each pier filled by iron railings. The main entrance piers take the form of brick turrets with conical plaintiled roofs with metal capping. The turrets are corbelled out half way up and again at eaves level. At the rear they are inscribed 'These cottages presented to the town of Southwold by Andrew Matthews of The Elms Southwold'. Wrought iron gates.

Listing NGR: TM5016977474