St Ambrose Almshouses

St Ambrose Almshouses is an almshouse consisting of 8 attached cottages, built around 1914, likely designed by WV Gough. The structure features snecked red Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, timber studding with pebble dashing on the first floor, brick gable and ridge stacks, and a tiled roof with gablets. It has an L-shaped single-depth plan and is designed in the Arts and Crafts style. The building is one storey high with a two-storey corner block, comprising 4 bays in the long elevation and 2 bays in the short left-hand elevation. Each cottage has a door and a single bay, with large lintels and segmental arches over the doors, which include integral overlights beneath a short cornice supported by floral brackets. There are small leaded windows to the side and shallow canted bays featuring 9/1 sash windows. The L-shaped corner block includes an ashlar porch at the angle, which has an open 4-centred archway beneath a flat lintel and open spandrels. The front of the porch is incised to create a first-floor bay window, topped with a stepped pediment that has a ball finial. Above the arch, there is a cartouche and a shield in the pediment. To the right, the building features 3-light mullion windows on both the ground and first floors. Inside, there are few decorative details, including dogleg staircases with moulded square newels and banisters. This almshouse is part of a group with the church and church hall of St Ambrose on Stretford Road.