St Martin in the Fields Almshouses, Numbers 1-9

A terrace of almshouses, built between 1817 and 1818, designed by Henry Hake Seward for the Parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and constructed by J Tomling. The buildings are of yellow stock brick with slate roofs.

The terrace is symmetrical, with a projecting, pedimented centre (number 5) featuring three windows. The flanking houses have two windows each, one of which is blind. The central section has pink granite columns with foliated capitals and shaped imposts with trefoil enrichment, supporting a shallow slated roof over the entrance and flanking canted bays. Panel-led doors are set under toplights, within plain surrounds. The ground-floor windows are recessed sashes with gauged red brick flat arches. An oval blind oculus is located in the tympanum. The flanking houses have square-headed doorways, fanlights, and panel-led doors. Gauged brick flat arches feature above the recessed four-pane sashes, and the windows above the entrances are blind. Shaped cast-iron rainwater heads are original. Slab chimney stacks rise from the party walls.

Several interiors have been altered by being opened up. The almshouses were originally intended to house up to 70 poor widows or spinsters of the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields. They form a group with the nearby St Martin-in-the-Fields Almshouses and Chapel.