St Pancras Almshouses Numbers 1-13

A group of 13 almshouses and a committee room were founded in 1850 by Donald Fraser, MD, and rebuilt between 1859 and 1863 by Henry Baker. The committee room was added in 1881. The buildings are constructed of yellow stock brick with red brick bands and diaper decoration, and have slate roofs with cast-iron cresting, tall moulded brick chimney stacks to each house, red brick dentil eaves, and a fleche on number 13.

The almshouses are arranged in two-storey ranges around a courtyard. The terminal houses, numbers 1 and 13, have gabled attics. The committee room is located in the corner, extending behind number 5. Numbers 2 to 12 each have two windows. Numbers 1 and 13 each have projecting bays with one window facing the road. Both have brick pointed arch porches at the angles with the main ranges, supported on columns and capitals. Number 1 has bay windows at ground floor level. The main ranges contain 5-centred arch doorways with panelled and half-glazed doors featuring two pointed lights. Over each doorway is a bracketed gabled canopy with a slate roof and fleur-de-lys finials. The committee room entrance lacks a canopy but has a late 19th-century cast-iron bracket with a 20th-century lamp. Windows throughout the houses have gauged red and black brick 5-centred arches, with recessed sashes of two pointed-head lights. The windows above the entrances are similar but with a single light. The interiors were not inspected.