Tomkins Almshouses

Tomkin's Almshouses, founded in 1733, is a notable building consisting of eight dwellings arranged in two parallel ranges with their gable ends facing Ock Street. The structure is linked by a gateway and features a pedimented tower. It has tiled roofs and stands two storeys high. The Ock Street façade showcases two 'Dutch' gable ends with stone coping and ball finials. The building is constructed of blue brick with red brick rusticated dressings around the windows and painted pilastered quoins. Each dwelling has one window per storey; the first floor features flat arched two-light casements with continuous cills, while the ground floor has segmental arched windows with keystones and four-light casements above recessed panels.

The brick gate piers, topped with stone coping and ball finials, support double doors and are accessed by two stone steps. The almshouses face a courtyard and are similarly built of blue brick with red brick rusticated dressings and two windows. They have a dentil and red brick cornice, segmental arched windows with labels, and leaded casements. The windows have blue brick recessed aprons, and the doorways are segmental arched with stone architraves and keystones.

A central archway features a stone architrave with a keystone and is topped by a brick castellated parapet. The taller gabled gateway block has a central archway with a stone keystone and impost bands, below a panel with an inscription and a blocked circular lunette. This is flanked by brick panels with stone ball finials and surmounted by a small pediment, with plain linking walls. A weather vane dated "1733 BT" sits atop the structure, which also features two tall chimney stacks. The elevation facing Conduit Road is built of red and blue brick on a rubble base, with a dentil cornice and two single-light windows flanking Ely's Conduit, featuring leaded casements and segmental brick architraves. Tomkin's Almshouses and No. 23 form a group.