The Old Workhouse

The Old Workhouse comprises four houses, originally built as a workhouse in the late 18th century and refurbished in the 20th century. Constructed of red brick with a low rendered plinth and dentil eaves, the building has a hipped roof of old tiles and two brick chimneys. The layout follows a U-plan. The building is two storeys and an attic, with slightly lower two-storey rear wings.

The front has five bays, with cross casements on the first floor. The ground floor has altered window openings, featuring four-light transomed casements either side of the centre and cross windows in the outer bays, all lowered in the 20th century, but preserving original segmental brick arches. There are three gabled roughcast dormers containing paired leaded casements. A central semi-circular arch leads to the lobby, with doors on each side. Additional doors are located in the rear wings. A 20th-century extension is visible on the rear wing to the right.

At the rear of the main range is a blocked five-bay arcade, partly hidden by small 20th-century extensions. Internally, the rooms are tall and spacious, featuring narrowly chamfered spine beams and segmental brick arches above the fireplaces.