Bartholomew Thomas Almshouses

The Bartholomew Thomas Almshouses are a group of four dwellings built in 1905. They feature roughcast walls and a red sandstone random rubble plinth. The design includes plain tiled half-hipped crosswings that extend over single-storey outer bays, which have cat slide roofs and overhanging eaves. The building has three large rendered stacks with flat tops positioned at the ends and center of the roof ridge. The layout consists of two-storey crosswings and single-storey outer bays arranged in a pattern of 1:1:2:1:1 bays.

The almshouses have six-light dormer windows at the center, all of which are leaded with panes. The crosswings contain four-light oriel windows with tiled pentices supported by decorative wooden brackets. On the ground floor, the crosswings feature four-light casement windows, and in the center, there are two four-light casement windows flanked by single-light windows. The outer bays have ledge and plank doors with long decorative hinges, and similar doors are set in single-storey porches that are partially glazed and rest on red sandstone dwarf walls.

There is an eight-bay verandah between the crosswings, which has two gabled leaded lights under a plain tile roof. This verandah is supported by wooden pilasters with curved brackets and has plain wooden railings. A date stone between the dormers reads "Bartholomew Thomas Almshouses 1905." The interior was not viewed during the survey, but at that time, there was no internal sanitation, and the original arrangements included two pairs of rendered hipped plain tiled privies located in the garden at the rear, which are not included in the listing.

Lucy Thomas, who passed away in 1902, left £3,000 to establish these almshouses for poor Protestants over the age of 55 who were of good character and unable to work.