Entrance Walls And Side Buildings At The Parson'S Almshouses

The Parson's Almshouses entrance walls and side buildings date from circa 1796. The walls are constructed of red-brown brick with shaped brick coping. Hipped plain tiled roofs cover the side buildings. The entrance wall is approximately 1.5 metres high and runs across the front of the almshouses, featuring pilaster buttresses - seven to the left and four to the right of the gate. The gate is flanked by piers approximately 2 metres high, and the piers are crowned by stone spheres, with a wrought iron gate between. The wall curves southwards to return along Onslow Road and connects to a single-storey, rectangular outbuilding. An angled return to the north, facing Queens Road, connects to a similar single-storey block. This block has ogee-headed, leaded casement windows - two on the front elevation and blind on the return wall.