Pollen'S Almshouses

SU 3645 NW ANDOVER MARLBOROUGH STREET 4/80 Nos 12 to 22 (even) 24.2.50 (Pollen's Almshouses) II 1686, later C19 restoration. Regular row of cottages, of one storey and attic, 6 windows, 3 coupled doorways. Tile roof, catslide at rear, 3 massive old stacks, 6 dormers with cills at eaves level, with brick faced gables. Coursed flint walling in panels, with red brick dressings; quoins enclosing all the openings and at corners, continued as verticals above a horizontal band at first floor level, cambered arched, high brick plinth. The end gables have similar banding, with a central vertical. Modern casements. Plain boarded doors. Stone panel above the central doorways inscribed ..."Almshouses erected by John Pollen Esq 1686."

Listing NGR: SU3641445876