Almshouses

TL 87 SE AMPTON THE STREET

2/6 Almshouses 14.7.55

GV II

Four almshouses, now unoccupied. A tablet in the central pediment is dated 1693, with a Latin Inscription to the founder, Dorothy Calthorpe. Single storey. Colour-washed brick, with chamfered and rusticated red brick quoins and dressings, and a slightly projecting central bay with triangular pediment and brick dentil cornice. Black glazed pantiles and 2 internal chimney-stacks each with 2 round shafts of ornate moulded brick. 4 late C19 canted bay windows in earlier openings, with C20 small-paned casements. Central entrance door with 8 raised fielded panels, and subordinate doors in recessed porches. The range appears to have been considerably restored in the mid C19, when the present roof, the chimney-stacks and dentil cornice were added to the older structure. The Latin inscription, now very faint, reads: 'MDCXCIII DOROTHEA CALTHORPE HOSPITIUM HOC FUNDIT VIRGO IN VIRGINIUM SOLAMEN.' The original foundation was intended for 6 poor women, but the endowment was insufficient.

Listing NGR: TL8665271221