North Lodge

North Lodge is a group of almshouses built in the early 19th century for Thomas Richardson, owned by a Quaker Trust. The buildings feature cement rendered walls with angle pilasters and eaves modillions, topped with a graduated greenslate roof that is hipped over the central house. The central two-storey, three-bay house, known as North Lodge, is flanked by single-storey, two-bay cottages (Nos. 2 & 3 and 4 & 5) and ends with two-storey, single-bay gabled houses (Nos. 1 & 6). North Lodge has a 20th-century door with a patterned overlight within a Tuscan porch. The windows are casement style with glazing bars set in painted architraves. The cottages also have 20th-century doors and casement windows in painted architraves. Nos. 1 & 6 feature 20th-century side doors with overlights and triple sash windows with glazing bars in painted architraves. According to Parson & White's History & Directory from 1829, Thomas Richardson, Esq., originally from the town, built a handsome mansion for his occasional residence, with the two wings converted into six cottages for poor families to live in rent-free.