Milward Almshouses

These four almshouses form a single, unified structure, dated 1885 by a plaque. They were founded by Alfred Milward and designed to provide housing for elderly married couples. The building is constructed of rock-faced squared and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, topped with a clay tile roof featuring alternating bands of fish-scale and plain tiles; wooden bargeboards adorn the roofline.

The architectural style is Gothic Revival. The layout is a double-depth plan, arranging the four units within a symmetrical design. The two-storey exterior features a four-window range with projecting gabled wings at each end and a recessed central two-bay section. Smaller half-dormer gables break through the eaves of the wings. Ground-floor windows are mullioned, with three lights and Carnarvon-arched heads, dripstones, and small-pane casements. Similar windows, but with two lights, are located on the upper floor. A lean-to porch extends between the flanking wings in the recessed central section. There are two plank doors to the center and additional plank doors in gabled porches on each return facade.

Decorative details include rusticated quoins, a complex tiled roof, elaborate coats of arms set between each wing’s windows, ammonite carvings below the gable of each wing, and the inscribed plaque commemorating Alfred Milward's founding of the almshouses. The interior has not been inspected. The building is a well-preserved example of its type, though its construction date of 1885 is relatively late for the vernacular Gothic style.