Grade 2

Almshouses. c1920. Red brick with ashlar dressings and pantile roofs. 6 tall square brick stacks. Coped gabled with kneelers. Single storey plus attic. 17 bay front. Centre 3 bays project slightly and are crowned by a large Dutch gable. Central doorway with overlight, and ashlar surround with flat hood and ashlar panel linking it with an upper sash window, which is topped by a curved, broken pediment. Either side are single glazing bar sashes. Slightly set-back to either side are 6 bay wings, each with 6 glazing bar sashes and above 6 raking dormers each with a small glazing bar sash. At either end are symmetrical pavilions with a central glazing bar sash flanked by narrow sashes with above in the gable a single small glazing bar sash. The rear facade is very similar though with a Doric colonnade linking all the cottages together by a covered walk. The eastern pavilion contains the Trustees Meeting Room with an ashlar bolection mould fireplace and simple exposed queen post roof. Some cottages retain original Royal Doulton tiled fireplaces. These cottages were built in memory of F W McAulay; Captain who fell in action at Fonquervillers, France, May 21 1916, aged 25.