Powis Almshouses

Powis Almshouses are 18th-century almshouses designed in the Queen Anne style. They form an L-shaped block with elevations facing inward towards a paved and walled forecourt that is raised above road level. The structure is built of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and features a hipped slate roof set back behind a parapet with a moulded cornice, along with tall brick stacks topped with tall chimney pots. The building has two storeys and a cellar.

The front displays a symmetrical range of cross-framed windows with ashlar surrounds and leaded quarry casements. Each door is adorned with a moulded triangular pediment on console brackets, leading to tall narrow boarded doors with overlights. A continuous moulded stringcourse runs along the first floor level, topped by a moulded cornice.

The left wing features an eight-window range at the front and two windows on the side, with two doorways. The right wing has a four-window range and a central doorway beneath a plaque set in a cambered-headed recess. The plaque reads: "This Almshouse was erected and endowed AD 1716 by the sole charity of Thomas Powis late of Enfield, in the County of Middlesex, Vintner, a native of this town, for the reception and maintenance of six poor men and six poor women, Inhabitants of this Town and Parish forever," with a sundial above.

There are two lead down-pipes with ornamental rainwater heads, and a similar two-window range is present on the street frontage, which includes an arched cellar access at street level. Access to the forecourt is via eight stone steps from the road.