Nos. 1-3 Greenway's Almhouses

Formerly an industrial building, circa 1850s, understood to have been built as a glove workshop. Now (2014), part of the Greenway’s Almshouses.

MATERIALS: local stone rubble with brick dressings, weather boarding to the upper storey and a slate roof with a brick stack over the east end.

PLAN: a narrow rectangular building on a north-to-south axis.

EXTERIOR: it is a two-storey gable-ended building. The north gable end is blind save for a small glazed first-floor opening. The west elevation is ten bays. These include two doors (one a plank, the other a modern glazed door), seven windows to the ground floor and five to the first floor. The east elevation has six bays, with two modern partially glazed doors, four windows to the ground floor (three of which have 16 panes) and five windows to the first. The south gable end has a double leaf modern glazed door and a window above. The ground-floor openings have segmental brick arches and all of the casement windows are modern replacement timber frames, as are the first-floor six-pane sashes.

INTERIOR: a partial inspection of the building was undertaken (2014). It has been converted into three separate dwellings and this is likely to have altered the original plan. Some internal features recorded in 1972 may survive, including brick segmental-head fireplaces, and slender ceiling joists with scissor bracing in the central ground-floor room. The roof is a tie-beam construction.