Roger's Almshouses

Roger's Almshouses, built around 1868, are designed in the Gothic style and consist of two storeys arranged around three sides of a courtyard, with a clock tower projecting from the center of the inner side. The buildings feature slated roofs with coped gables and a bracketed eaves course that carries the gutter. The exterior is made of rusticated grit stone ashlar, with a string course at the first floor level. Each house has two-light casement windows, and the first-floor windows are gabled with trefoil heads. The ground floor windows have splayed reveals. The doorways are recessed and have simple bracketed hoods, fanlights, and boarded doors. The four-storey clock tower has a pyramidical roof and gabled clock faces, with loops on each floor except the ground floor, which features a two-light window in an arched recess with a carved tympanum and the inscription 'George Rogers, 1868' above a hood mould. There is also a bronze bust of Rogers on a bracket above the ground floor window. Nos 1 to 12 Roger's Almshouses form a cohesive group.