Bearpackers Almshouses

Bearpackers Almshouses are almshouses built in 1818. They are constructed from squared and coursed dressed stone with ashlar dressings and feature a Welsh slate roof. The building consists of two long, narrow blocks arranged in an L-shape, with five Cotswold gables on each block. All chimney stacks are made of brick. Each block contains five dwellings, each featuring a two-light window in the gable and a small one-light window alongside it on the upper floor, with a three-light window under a continuous string on the ground floor. All windows have iron casements with hollow chamfer mouldings. The doors are made of planks, with a nail-head pattern on the upper block, and are set under four-centred arches beneath the string, which has dropped labels in the form of blank shields and decorated spandrels containing the initials 'A' and 'B'.

The right-hand block is stepped to follow the slope, with each dwelling contained within a coped gable. The outermost gable of each block features a commemorative tablet in the form of a Greek stele, with worn inscriptions referring to an endowment from 1837 for five men and five women; this was restored and rededicated in 1967. The group faces a triangular garden enclosed by a brick wall with weathered stone coping, and there are two plain iron gates set into large, single stone square weathered piers.