Almshouses

Almshouses, erected in 1696 by Hugh Boscawen and restored in 1895 to plans by Silvanus Trevail. The building is constructed of slatestone rubble with granite dressings and a Delabole slate roof, featuring external stone stacks to the gable ends and lateral stacks with small slate gables. It has a long, single-depth, four-room plan with an open gallery along the front first floor.

The north-west street front has an open wooden gallery with wooden posts and a close-boarded balustrade of 1895, supported by six short granite pillars on a granite-coped rubble wall. Access is provided by a short flight of granite steps between the middle two pillars. The original chamfered granite framed openings include a door, two windows, and a door positioned off-centre to the right, and a door far right. Mullions have been removed from the windows. Other ground floor openings are likely from 1895 or later. A stone rubble stair turret, originally positioned to the left, remains in its original location with an 1895 dogleg staircase. The return wall to the far right ends short of the main range. First floor doors are likely in their original positions. The main roof is sprocketed to provide a lower pitch over the gallery.

The south-east front, a five-window arrangement, is largely unaltered apart from some replaced stonework and possible rebuilding of the upper parts of the chimneys. A lateral stack is located between windows one and two, and windows three and four, with an original chamfered granite doorframe slightly left of centre between the stacks. A two-light granite mullion window is situated to the left of the door. The remaining ground floor windows have three lights, and all retain rebates for shutters. All windows are original and have been little restored, with leaded glazing probably dating to 1895. A 20th-century rendered buttress is present to the left lateral stack.

The interior is simple. The roof was not inspected.