Almshouses

PADSTOW MIDDLE STREET (east side), Padstow SW 9075-9175 8/104 Almshouses

GV II

Almshouses and wall to front on west. 1870 (datestone). Brick laid in English bond. Rag slate roof with gable ends and clay ridge tiles. Brick end and axial stacks. Plan: Courtyard plan; 2 rows of four 1-room plan houses on north and south sides with office on east side and brick wall with entrance on west, enclosing the fourth side of a rectangular court. Exterior: 2 storeys. East elevation comprises the gable ends of the north and south ranges flanking a brick wall with entrance through to the court. The wall is stepped, rising in the centre and has a dressed stone arch with trefoil head. The north and south ranges are each of 2 storeys with 2 pointed dressed stone arches to the windows on the ground floor and two 4-centred arched window openings above. Barge boards to the deep projecting verges. Datestone on right hand gable end with inscription in memory of John Tredwin. Within the courtyard, the 2 rows of houses comprise regular 4-window front elevations with gables to front. Plank doors on ground floor and 2-light casements above. Office at far east end is lower with a gable end to front, a pointed arched opening to the porch with a 2-light casement above. Interior: not inspected. Especially unspoilt group.

Listing NGR: SW9180475404