Tracey Almshouses Including 2 Earlier Granite Uprights Attached To Front Wall And The Cap Of A Gatepost At The East End

A row of five almshouses was built in 1910, designed in a style reminiscent of the early and mid 19th century. The building has solid, roughcast walls and a slate roof. There are three rendered chimneystacks on the ridge: one on the right-hand gable, one slightly off-centre to the right, and a third off-centre to the left, between numbers 41 and 43. The almshouses are two storeys high with a five-window front. The central bay, which comprises number 39, projects slightly and has a low-pitched gable above the eaves, featuring overhanging eaves and plain bargeboards. The windows are two-light designs with wooden mullions and iron casements, featuring decorative catches internally and diamond-shaped leaded panes. The ground-floor windows, and the centre second-floor windows, have straight hood-moulds. The simple plank doors are flanked by wooden uprights with ovolo-moulded edges and raised run-out stops; the tops of the uprights, which likely once supported a hood, are missing. Number 43 has a later wooden hood with a slated pent roof. The doors are arranged asymmetrically. Numbers 35 and 37 share a paired door, with a window on either side. The door to number 39 is on the left-hand edge, with the window centrally placed to the right of it. Numbers 41 and 43 have doors at the left and right ends respectively, each with a window on its inner side. A granite plaque in the gable's apex bears the inscription: "1910. These alms houses were built in loving memory of Mrs A M Tracey died Sept. 13th 1902 and of her son P W Tracey. Give thanks unto the Lord!" The gable walls have no windows. The eaves overhang and are finished with plain bargeboards; the bargeboards on the east gable have a horizontal 'collar', as did those on the west and front gables in 1984. A narrow cobbled pavement, likely dating from 1910, runs in front of the almshouses, bordered by granite kerbstones. At the right-hand end of the pavement is a granite column with a moulded cap and base, likely dating from the 16th or 17th century. At the left-hand end is an oblong-section granite post, chamfered on one side with a rounded step-stop at its foot. Adjacent to this post on the east is a stone rubble gatepost with a reused piece of carved granite with a crenellated top as a cap, also likely dating from the 16th century. Two earlier granite uprights and a gatepost cap are attached to the front wall and east end respectively.