Yerbury Almshouses

Yerbury Almshouses, located on Yerbury Street, were endowed in 1679 and rebuilt in 1914. They are designed in an 'L' plan in the Elizabethan style and constructed from red brick in English bond. The building features three gables on the front facing Roundstone Street, with stone dressings around the windows and angle buttresses. It is two storeys high and has three windows on the front, including two and three-light mullioned windows and a four-light central window on the ground floor, all with casements and leaded panes. There are two smaller windows on the first floor to the left of the center. The roof is tiled with two brick ridge chimneys. A stone panel in the center gable is inscribed with "1679 Yerbury Almshouses 1914," and the northeast corner displays a coat of arms at eaves level. The entrance to the courtyard is to the right, featuring a stone doorway with a slight ogee arch set in a low brick wall, along with a cast iron and wrought iron gate. The building has two gables facing Yerbury Street and occasional blue headers on the inner elevations.

Nos 1 to 6 (consecutive) of the Yerbury Almshouses form a group with Nos 2 to 4 (consecutive), No 5 (Rodney House) which includes a stable yard and garden railings, stable buildings and walls, as well as Nos 8 to 13 (consecutive) and No 25 (Lovemead House) with its garden wall and gatepiers, and Polebarn House with its boundary wall, gatepiers, and gates on Polebarn Road.