No 75 And 77 Including Village Hall And Shop

Nos. 75 and 77, including the Village Hall and Shop, is an almshouse group built around 1912 by Walter Cave. The building is constructed of red brick with rusticated quoins and features plain tiled, hipped roofs with central stacks on the pavilions and side stacks on the shop. It consists of two pavilions connected by a cloister in the middle, with the shop located behind. The structure is two storeys high, with semi-dormers on the pavilions and glazed lanterns visible above the cloister roof. The shop is centrally located and flanked by single-storey blocks at the front. Each end pavilion has one window, and the entrances are on the sides. There is a panelled and part-glazed telephone box in the cloister to the left of the center. The shop complex is connected at the left end to No. 1 North Avenue and No. 2 Chestnut Walk. Whiteley Village was established by William Whiteley of Whiteley's stores for elderly residents and was designed on an octagonal plan by Frank Atkinson, utilizing prominent architects of the time.