St Johns Hospital And Attached Front Wall

St John's Hospital, built in 1709 and restored in the 20th century, consists of six almshouses and an attached front wall. A plaque on the building indicates it was founded in 1602. The structure is made of coursed limestone with ashlar sandstone dressings and features a stone slate roof.

The hospital is a single storey with an attic and has a six-window range. Its symmetrical design includes three pairs of windows, each topped with a pedimented gable, arranged in a rhythm of two windows, two windows, and two windows. The building has a chamfered plinth, large quoins, and door surrounds that are chamfered and quoined, featuring deep lintels and reproduction studded Gothic panelled doors. The windows are chamfered, two-light mullioned types with iron casements and diamond-pane leaded lights. Each pair of doorways is located beneath the center of each gable and is flanked by windows under a continuous dripmould. There are ashlar stacks on the ridge behind each gable. The left return has a pedimented gable, while the right end of the building adjoins The Old Town Hall on King Street. The door of the right end almshouse is unnumbered, while the other doors are numbered 1 to 5 consecutively from the right.

The attached front wall features chamfered copings and round-headed gatepiers at the central opening. The interior has not been inspected.