Geale'S Almshouses

Geale's Almshouses, founded in 1653, is a block of four cottages located on Church Street. The building is two storeys high and features six bays arranged in a pattern of window-coupled doors and windows, repeated twice. Constructed from brick with a tiled roof, each half of the block has a central pair of oak doors with heavy wrought-iron strap hinges set within a single moulded oak frame. These doors are flanked by four-light mullioned and lattice-paned casement windows on the ground floor. On the first floor, there are two similar windows, but these have brick hood moulds. All windows have stuccoed coverings on the mullions and frames. A moulded stringcourse runs at the first-floor level, and there is an eaves cornice.