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almshouse — Boyle's Almshouses

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almshouse — Boyle's Almshouses
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Attached L-plan eight-bay three-storey former almshouse, built 1634, now in use as houses. Comprising four single-bay three-storey houses to street front (east), and pair of gable-fronted single-bay three-storey houses to lane (north). Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge crestings. Exposed coursed rubble sandstone masonry walls having carved limestone plaque. Square-headed openings having timber casement windows. Those to the ground floor with relieving arches above having rubble sandstone voussoirs. Tripartite openings to lane houses, having stone mullions, entablature and fixed timber windows. Pointed arch openings with relieving arches above, having timber battened doors.

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