Woborne'S Almhouses With Its Boundary Walling 5 Metres To East And South

Woborne's Almhouses, located on Bond Street in Yeovil, are a late 19th-century rebuilding of earlier structures. They are constructed from local cut and squared stone with Ham stone dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof and tall stone chimney stacks. The building is two stories high and features gables on each of its seven bays, with the first, fourth, and seventh bays being wider and projecting.

The central bay, which serves as the hall or chapel, is one story tall and is flanked by clasping and angled buttresses, with the clasping buttresses terminating in an octagonal quasi-battlemented design. It has a 14th-century style three-light traceried window with a trefoil window above it. The outer bays contain flair chamfered mullioned windows without labels but with relieving arches above, and each has plain sash windows with one horizontal glazing bar per casement—three lights on the ground floor and two lights on the first floor. The remaining bays have two-light windows on both levels, with the upper windows lacking relieving arches. Doorways are located in the third and fifth bays, with the latter bay featuring a window; both doorways have segmental arches and labels with horizontal returns over sidelights.

The side elevations facing Peter Street and South Street are simply designed to match the front. The interior has not been inspected. The property also includes boundary walling that averages 1.2 meters high, made of local stone with bold copings, gate piers topped with double-pitched finials, and simple iron railings with cross finials, which are integral to the setting. The almshouse was originally founded in 1416 by John Stone, Rector of Tintinhull, and was re-founded in 1476 by John Woborne, Canon of St Paul's Cathedral in London.