Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses

Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses were founded in 1576 by William Lambarde and rebuilt in 1818. The building consists of two-storey cottages arranged around three sides of a rectangular lawn. At the center, there is a chapel aligned with a stone Ionic portico featuring three bays, with paired columns on either side. The portico has a horizontal entablature with a blocking course and a brick pediment above, which includes a moulded stone cornice, a clock in the tympanum, and a bell cupola topped with a wind vane.

On each side of the chapel, there are three cottages, while the side rows contain seven cottages each. The cottages are constructed of yellow stock brick and have two windows each. They feature low-pitched slate roofs with eaves, recessed windows with glazing bars, and small hoods on shaped brackets above the doorways. The gables at the north end of the side rows display a coat-of-arms in a stone roundel within the tympanum of the pediment, along with a round-headed arched blank window in an arched recess, which has a stone band at the springing and an inscribed tablet above it.

There is a wrought-iron entrance gate, and to the south, there are early to mid-19th century cottages that are part of the group, along with a pair of cottages at either end of the south range. Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses, along with the front railings and gates, form a cohesive group.