Pleasant View

Pleasant View is a former set of three almshouses and an attached house, now functioning as a single dwelling. Founded around 1668 by John Thorpe, the building has undergone alterations in the 20th century and includes a late 18th-century house. It is constructed of squared coursed limestone with a Collyweston slate roof and is single storey in height. The façade features a three-window range of two-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows with hood moulds. There are two 20th-century stable doors, located between the window ranges, under renewed wood lintels, and a blocked door to the far right. The building has a chamfered plinth, an ashlar gable parapet to the left, and ashlar ridge and end stacks. The attached house on the right has a two-window range of 20th-century leaded casements under wood lintels at the first floor, along with two canted bays featuring 20th-century leaded casements and slated roofs at the ground floor. A central 20th-century door is located under a wood lintel, with brick and stone stacks at the ends. Although the interior was not inspected, the almshouses are noted to have remnants of a small oven on the fireplace. A central gable was removed from the almshouses in 1937, and an inscribed panel recording the foundation has since been reset at Cornforth Homes on Bridge Street.