St Giles Almshouses And Walls And Railings

St Giles Almshouses is a quadrangle of four almshouses founded in 1665, erected on this site in 1790, and rebuilt in 1885 by Edward Henry Burnell. The building is constructed of yellow stock brick with red brick bands, strings, and stone dressings, featuring fishscale tile roofs with gables in a Jacobean style. It consists of two ranges that form two sides of the quadrangle, with two double-fronted cottages on each side, each having three windows. The almshouses are two storeys tall and have arched doorways with dripmoulds and foliated labels, fanlights, and ledged and braced doors set in slightly projecting gabled entrance bays with oculus in the gable. The windows are transom and mullion style with 20th-century glazing. The interiors are simple. The site also includes attached boundary walls with stone coping topped by cast-iron railings. At the south end of the quadrangle, there is an inscribed York Stone tablet dated 1790, which records the former almshouses on the site, as well as a tablet dated 1885 that notes the rebuilding of the almshouses.