almshouse

Terraced two-storey over basement house, built 1777, as part of scheme of almshouses, having four-bay ground floor and three-bay first floor. Westernmost bay formerly part of another house. Easternmost bay shared with neighbouring property and has blind window opening to first floor and round-headed red brick niche to ground floor with limestone keystone, imposts and sill. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, terracotta chimney pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered coursed limestone walls. Camber-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to first floor and basement and nine-over-six pane to ground floor, all having limestone sills and red brick block-and-start surrounds, and six-pane timber casement window to basement with limestone sill. Round-headed former doorway, now a window opening, having red brick block-and-start surround, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window with fanlight and limestone sill with recessed brick infill below. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door, spoked timber fanlight, red brick block-and-start surround and limestone step over area with rendered parapets having dressed limestone copings. Rendered boundary wall with limestone coping.

Kingston College was built by the Earl of Kingston for the "poor Gentlemen and Gentlewomen members of the Church of Ireland," with tenants of the estate having priority. This house shares a bay with its neighbour, the bay in question having two classically-arranged blind openings, a feature echoed in similar locations elsewhere in the group. The house also incorporates one bay of another house, the front doorway of which now functions as a window. The retention of timber sash windows and the timber panelled door considerably enhances this building's historic character.