List of almshouses in the United Kingdom

The following is a list of British almshouses:

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England

Berkshire

Dixon's Almshouses, Aldermaston
Donnington Hospital, Donnington, Bucklebury & Iffley, Oxon
St Peter's Almshouses, Brimpton
John Isbury's Almshouses, Lambourn
Place's or Jacob Hardrett's Almshouses, Lambourn
The Haven of Rest Akmshouses, Maidenhead
St Mary's Almshouses, Newbury
Pearces Almshouses, Newbury
Old Hunt's Almshouses, Newbury
Coxedd's Almshouses, Newbury
Newbury Church & Almshouse Charity Almshouses, Newbury (Newtown Road & Harvest Green)
Kimber's Almshouses, Newbury
St Bartholomew's Hospital, also known as King John's Almshouses, Newbury
Raymond's Almshouses, Newbury
Essex Wynter Almshouses, Newbury
Mabel Luke Almshouses, Newbury
Robinson's Almshouses, Newbury
Vachel Almshouses, Reading
Andrew's Almshouses, also known as the Widow's House, Speenhamland
Westende Almshouses, Wokingham

Brighton and Hove

Percy and Wagner Almshouses, Brighton (built 1795 and 1859)^[1]

Bristol

Merchant Venturers Almshouses, Bristol

Colstons Almshouses (built 1691)
Foster's Almshouses (founded 1482)
Merchant Venturers Almshouses (built c.1696)
St Nicholas's Almshouses (built 1652–1656)
St Monica's Home of Rest, Cote Lane (1925)
Bengough's Almshouses, Horfield Road
Haberfield House, Hotwell Road
Hill's Almshouses (now Stoneleigh House), Jacob's Wells Road
Merchant Taylors' Almshouses, Merchant Street (1701)
Holy Trinity Almshouses, Old Market Street
St Ambrose Almshouses, Park Crescent
Perry's Almshouses, Dragon Road, Winterbourne
Dr White's Almshouse (founded 1613)

Buckinghamshire

Thomas Hickman's Almshouses, Aylesbury (1695)
The Almshouse Charity of Sir Ralph Verney, Middle Claydon, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire

Cheshire

Crewe Almshouses, Nantwich (built 1767)
Harriet Hope Almshouses, Nantwich
Old Maids' Almshouse, Nantwich (built 1705, now demolished)
Tollemache Almshouses, Nantwich (built 1870)
Widows' Almshouses, Nantwich
Wilbraham's Almshouses, Acton (built 1613)
Wilbraham's Almshouses, Nantwich
Wood and Garnett Almshouses, Nantwich
Wood and Garnett Almshouses, Willaston
Wright's Almshouses, Nantwich (built 1638)

Cornwall

Poads Trust Almshouses, Menheniot
Morval Almshouses, Morval
Maids House, Quethiock
Buller Almshouses, Barker’s Hill, Saltash
Sir William Moyle’s Almshouses, Gallery Lane, St Germans
Earle’s Retreat, Trelawney Road, Falmouth
Mr Lanyon’s Almshouses, Halvarras Road, Kea
Hugh Boscawen Almshouses, Tregony Hill, Tregony
Kensey Place, Dockacre Road, Launceston
Padstow Almshouses, Middle Street, Padstow
Fowey Almshouses, 1 Cobb’s Well, Fowey
Rashleigh Almshouses, Polmear Hill, St. Austell
Almshouses, St. Stephen in St. Stephen Brannel

Derbyshire

London Road, Derby
Matthew Smiths Almshouses, Belper

Devon

John Greenway Gardens, Gold Street, Tiverton
Greenway Close, Kings Street, Tiverton

Durham

Fox Almshouses in Norton, County Durham

Jacob Wright Almhouses, Chester-le-Street
Fox Almshouses, Norton, Stockton-on-Tees
Trinity Gardens, Stockton-on-Tees
St. John of God, Greatham

Essex

Barfield's Almshouses, Dedham
Barker's Almshouses, Dedham
Dunton's Almshouses, Dedham
John Henry Keene Memorial Homes, Chelmsford
Shen Place Almshouses, Shenfield
Sir William Petre Almshouses, Ingatestone
South Weald Almshouses, South Weald
Fuller House (The Almshouses), Church Road, Stansted Mountfitchet

Hampshire

Deane's Almshouses, Basingstoke
Forbes Almshouses, East Meon

Herefordshire

Coningsby Hospital
Duppa's Almshouses, Pembridge^[2]
The Lazarus Hospital
Lingen Hospital
Saint Ethelbert's Hospital
Saint Giles' Hospital
Williams' Hospital, Hereford (built 1601)
Prices Almshouses
Aubrey's Almshouses
Rudhall Almshouses (Ross-on-Wye)

Hertfordshire

Baish Almshouses, Stanstead Abbots
Harrison Almshouses, Ware
Monson Almshouses, Broxbourne
St Mary's Almshouses, Ware
Bedford Almshouses, Watford
Warners Almshouses, Hitchin
Skynner's Almshouses, Hitchin
The Cloisters, Radcliffe Rd, Hitchin
Wynn Almshouses, Baldock

Kent

Charles Amherst Almshouses, Royal Tunbridge Wells
Cutbush & Corrall Charity Maidstone and Harrietsham
Faversham Almshouses
Foord Almshouses, Borstal
French Hospital (La Providence), Rochester (founded 1718)
Gartley Cottages, Dartford
The Hospital of Sir John Hawkins, Knight (founded 1594)
Hayward's Almshouses, Rochester
Loam Court, Dartford
Manwood Almshouses, Canterbury
Municipal Charities of Dover
Nuckell's Almshouse, St. Peters, Broadstairs
Richard Watts Almshouses, Rochester (founded 1579)
St. Catherine's Hospital, Rochester (founded 1315)
St Thomas Almshouses, Gravesend
Twisleton Almshouses, Dartford
Wrott and Hill Charity, Sutton-at-Hone
The Retreat,Sevenoaks

Leicestershire

Wyggeston's Hospital, Leicester

Lancashire

Bank Top Almshouses, Blackburn
Hartley Homes in Laneshawbridge, Colne Lancashire
Nancy Derbyshire Almshouses, Blackburn

Lincolnshire

Lord Burghley's Almshouse, Stamford
Browne's Hospital, Stamford
St Peter's Callis, Stamford
Snowden's Hospital, Stamford
Truesdale's Hospital, Stamford
Williamson's Hospital, Stamford
Hopkin's Hospital, Stamford
Fryer's Hospital, Stamford

Greater London

Barnet

Campe Almshouses, Whetstone (built 1612)
Leathersellers' Close, Barnet
Wilbraham Almshouses, Barnet (founded 1616)

Bexley

Styleman's Almshouses [built 1755]

Bromley

Waterman's Almhouses, Penge

Camden

Greenwoods Almshouses, Camden
St Giles in the Fields Almshouses, Covent Garden
St Pancras Almshouses

Croydon

Whitgift Almshouses, Croydon

Enfield

Wright's Almshouses, Enfield

Greenwich

Hackney

Geffrye former almshouses, Hoxton [now a museum]

Hammersmith and Fulham

Sir William Powell's Almshouses, Fulham
St Joseph's Almshouses, Brook Green

Kingston

Cleaves Almshouses, Kingston (founded 1550)

Lambeth

Carons Almshouses, Fentiman Road, SW8
City of London Almshouses, Brixton
Thrale Almshouses, Streatham

Richmond upon Thames

Tollemache Almshouses, Ham

Bishop Duppa's Almshouses, Richmond (founded in 1661)
Candler Almshouses, Twickenham
Church Estate Almshouses, Richmond
Hickey's Almshouses, Richmond
Houblon's Almshouses, Richmond
Michel’s Almshouses, Richmond (founded in 1695)
Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses, Richmond (founded in 1600)
Tollemache Almshouses, Ham

Southwark

Hopton's Almshouses, Bankside

Tower Hamlets

Norton Folgate Almshouses, Spitalfields

Wandsworth

Abraham Dawes Almshouses, Putney
Dovedale Cottages, Battersea

Westminster

Westminster Almshouses, Rochester Row

Norfolk

Fulmerston's Almshouses, Thetford
Great Hospital, Norwich (founded 1249)

Northamptonshire

Montague Hospital, Weekley

Nottinghamshire

The United Charities of Abel Collin, Beeston
Frances Longden Almshouses, Bramcote
Almshouses, Bunny
Willoughby Almshouses, Cossall
Sloswicke's Hospital, Churchgate, East Retford
Holy Trinity Hospital, Hospital Road, West Retford
Almshouses, Main Street, Grove
Heath’s Hospital, Mansfield
Plumptre Hospital (founded 1392), Nottingham
Canning Terrace, Canning Circus, Nottingham
William Woodsend Memorial Homes, Nottingham
Miss Cullen’s Almshouses, Carrington, Nottingham
George Wills Almshouses, Clifton, Nottingham
Daybrook Almshouses, Arnold, Nottingham
Mary Hardstaff Homes, Gedling, Nottingham
Albert Ball Memorial Homes, Lenton, Nottingham
Norris Almshouses, Sherwood, Nottingham
Dorothy Boot Homes, Wilford, Nottingham
Almshouses, Perlethorpe cum Budby

Oxfordshire

Angier's Almshouses, Wallingford
Bread & Beef Almshouses, Witney
Castle's Almshouses, Guildenford
Christ's Hospital, Abingdon
Drayton Almshouses, Drayton
Ewelme Hospital
Geering's Alsmhouses, Harwell
Goring Heath Almshouses, Goring Heath
Holloway's Almshouses, Witney
Tomkins Almshouses, Abingdon
Twitty's Almshouses, Abingdon
Warwick Almshouses, Burford

Somerset

Staffordshire

Dr Milley's Hospital, Lichfield
Hospital of St John Baptist without the Barrs, Lichfield
Guy's Almshouses, Tamworth
The Akrill Homes, West Bromwich

Suffolk

The Downs Almshouses, Stoke-by-Nayland
Dreyer Almshouses, Bungay
The Almshouse, Wickhambrook
Tooley's and Smart's Almshouses, Ipswich
Trinity Hospital, Long Melford

Surrey

Abbot's Hospital, Guildford
St Mary's Almshouses, Godstone
Whiteley Village Walton on Thames
Windsor Almshouses, Farnham (built 1619)

Warwickshire

Bedworth Almshouses. Bedworth
Church Street Almshouses, Stratford-upon-Avon
Emily Payne and Elizabeth Saunders Homes, Stratford-upon-Avon
Mary Newlands Almshouses, Stratford-upon-Avon
John Roberts Almshouses, Stratford-upon-Avon
Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick

West Sussex

Sackville College from the High street

Dyers Almshouses, Crawley (built 1939–40, 1952 and 1971)
Sackville College, East Grinstead (built 1609)

Wiltshire

Hungerford Almshouses, Corsham (built 1668)
Somerset Hospital, Froxfield

Yorkshire

Joseph Crossley's Almshouses, Halifax
Sir Francis Crossley's Almshouses, Halifax
Waterhouse Homes, Halifax
St Leonard's Almshouses, Horbury (built 1888)
Saltaire Almshouses
Lady Lumley's Almshouses, Thornton-le-Dale
Ingram's Hospital, York (built 1630–1640)
Ledsham Almshouses, Ledsham, West Yorkshire^[3]
Harrison's Almshouses, Sandal, Wakefield
Ripley Ville Almshouses, Bradford (built 1881)
John Eaton's Almshouses, Sheffield
Shrewsbury Hospital, Sheffield

Wales

Bangor Cathedral Almshouses, Bangor, Gwynedd
Burton Almshouses, Newport
Queen Victoria Almshouses, Newport

Northern Ireland

Seaforde Almshouses, Newcastle Road, Seaforde, Co Down

References

↑ Historic England. "Nos. 1–12 (consecutive) Percy and Wagner Almshouses, Lewes Road (east side), Brighton (Grade II) (1381669)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
↑ "Duppa's Almshouses". National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
↑ "Walking: Rural delights on the edge of bustling Leeds". Yorkshire Evening Post. 13 October 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2014.

External links

The Almshouse Association, representing independent almshouse charities throughout the United Kingdom
Almshouses: restored historic almshouse at the Geffrye Museum
List of English Almshouses associated with monastic institutions (from public domain text, English Monastic Life)
Medieval Hospitals (Almshouses) of England, by Rotha Mary Clay (public domain text, including daily life, care, and the "Office at the Seclusion of a Leper")