Metcalfe Almshouses

TL 85 NE HAWSTEAD THE POUND

5/72 Metcalfe Almshouses (Nos.1 to 4 (consec) 14.7.55 Formerly listed as Almshouses

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Almshouses, 1811 on plaque, for P. Metcalfe. A-B-A, with central bay set slightly back. Elements in the Gothic style. 2 storeys, 2 windows to each cottage. Gault brick with brick parapets, moulded cornice and crenellations of limestone with merlons arched at the centre bay. Hipped slated roof with rendered brick axial chimneys. Windows with 2-centred arched heads of gauged brick; sliding small-pane sashes, the upper glazing bars following the arch form of the window-head. At 1st floor a central dummy window. Battened and boarded entrance doors with arched heads, the 2 central doorways linked under an ogee arch of gauged brick and square limestone hoodmould above. A frieze beneath the cornice in the central bay has the inscription "These Alms Houses were erected and endowed, for the benefit of the Aged, and Deserving, Poor, Anno 1811, by PHILIP METCALFE, Esqr".

Listing NGR: TL8597859179