Windsor Almshouses

SU 8347 SE 1/31 26.4.50 1099

CASTLE STREET (East Side) Nos 53 to 60 (consec) (Windsor Almshouses)

GV II*

Dated 1619. Long symmetrical front of 2 storeys, with 5 gables. Brick, old tile roof, partly relaid with new tiles. The central gable crow-stepped and with central square stone panel with inscription of date and name Andrew Windsor, who erected building for "8 poor, honest old impotent persons". Other gables have C19 cut bargeboards with central pointed finials, and 2-light small panel casements. On ground floor - 8 ledged doors with cover strips studded on and formed into flat pointed arch at head, the whole door also with flat pointed arched top, all doors early C19 but in older chamfered frames. The central gable has a similar large double door. The doors are arranged in pairs with single doors at corners. A range of 2-light casements in chamfered wood frames, and under drip moulds, between doors. Each door approached by small flight of brick steps with wood edging to treads, and with C19 pediment hood over. 4 tall chimney stacks. 3 tall plane trees at pavement edge in front of buildings are an important street feature.

All the listed buildings in Castle Street (East Side) form a group. The Windsor Almshouses (with the wall behind), and the listed buildings (with Nos 3 and 5 and Sherfield's Yard) in Park Row, all form a group.

Listing NGR: SU8391847044