Almshouses

These are six almshouses, founded in 1641 by the Topp family and built in 1657. They are constructed from coursed rubble stone and dressed limestone, featuring a Welsh slate roof with coped verges and finials. The buildings are arranged around three sides of a courtyard, with a wall and gateway on the south side. They are single-storey with an attic and have a two-window south front. The central entrance has 20th-century double doors set in a chamfered stone surround, with two-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements on either side. Throughout the almshouses, there are cast-iron casements.

A moulded string course runs below the eaves, and there is a heraldic cartouche above the door. The front features two gabled stone attic dormers, each with 2-light mullioned casements. The flanking wings each contain two glazed doors and one 2-light mullioned casement facing the courtyard. The gable ends have one 2-light mullioned casement and a string course. The side wings have chamfered doorways with 20th-century doors at the front; the left return of the south wing has two single-light casements on both floors, while the right-hand wing has single-light casements only on the ground floor.

At the rear, there are glazed doors and single-light casements, and a single-storey wing to the right has 20th-century planked doors and 2-light mullioned casements. The interior has been altered. The stone wall closing the south side of the courtyard features saddleback coping and a central semi-circular arched gateway with rusticated gate piers. The top of the gateway has a moulded cornice with finials and a richly carved cartouche displaying the arms of the Topp family. The Topp family were wealthy clothiers, and John Topp built Stockton House.