Ormonde Almshouse — Barrack Street

Detached five-bay single-storey almshouse with half-dormer attic, built 1839, on an E-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height gabled breakfront with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch; single-bay full-height gabled projecting end bays with three-bay full-height side elevations. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Now in alternative use. Pitched slate roof on an E-shaped plan centred on gablet (breakfront), clay ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, cut-limestone chamfered coping to gables on cut-limestone ogee corbel kneelers with octagonal pinnacles to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Tudor-headed central door opening, cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Round-headed window openings ("cheeks") with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings. Pointed-arch window opening (half-dormer attic) with timber Y-mullion, and cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (ground floor) with timber mullions, and cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (half-dormer attic) with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (end bays) with square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (half-dormer attic), timber mullions, and cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns (ground floor) or timber casement windows (half-dormer attic). Set back from line of street with cut-limestone panelled piers to perimeter having roll moulded "slated" capping supporting spear head-detailed wrought iron double gates.