The Almshouses

Pair of semi-detached two-bay single-storey almshouses with dormer attics, built 1874, with shared central gable and having recessed porches to end gables. Now in use as private houses. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughly coursed rubble sandstone walls with dressed limestone quoins and having carved limestone crest set under central gable. Brick surrounds to window openings. Rendered walls to porches. Single and tripartite timber sliding ash windows to northern house, and replacement uPVC to southern. Replacement timber doors. Rubble stone outbuilding with pitched slate roof to rear.

These former almshouses are of significance for the quality of their architectural form and detailing, and for their historical connection with Lord Bloomfield. They were built to accommodate Bloomfield's widowed Church of Ireland tenants. The symmetrical form, massing and building materials provide a positive contribution to the surrounding landscape. The connection with Lord Bloomfield is evidenced by the crest set under the central gable with the letter 'B' and the date '1874'.