The Drapers Almshouses

The Drapers' Almshouses are a terrace of five almshouses built in 1820. They are located on Glasshill Street in Southwark. The building is constructed from multicoloured stock brick with a coped parapet, which is higher at each end. It is two storeys high and comprises thirteen bays, with a three-bay central section and a two-bay end section projecting slightly. The almshouses have flat, bracketed canopies above the six-panel doors, some of which are glazed. Casement windows with Gothic glazing bars feature throughout the building; the end sections have sash windows with glazing bars set within round-arched recesses, topped with a stuccoed tympanum above a cornice head at the first floor level. Stucco bands are present between the floors and above the second floor. A stone tablet above the centre of the building reads: THE DRAPERS ALMSHOUSES / REBUILT A.D.1820 / WILLIAM GIBBS / WILLIAM PUGH, CHURCH WARDENS / JOSEPH KESTERTON, OF THIS PARISH. The interior was not inspected as part of the listing process.