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 Almshouses, 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

Cambridgeshire

• Moretons Charity Almhouses, Cottenham (built 1853)

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), Chatham
• 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
• Lyddington Bede House (previously alms house - building open and run by English Heritage), Lyddington
• Bede House, Melton Mowbray

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

• Thomas Philipot's Almshouses, Eltham
• Trinity Hospital

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
• Draper Almshouses, Glasshill Street

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)
• Trinity Hospital, Castle Rising, King's Lynn, Norfolk PE31 6AQ

Northamptonshire

• Montague Hospital, (now a private house) Weekley
• Jesus Hospital,built 1593 Rothwell

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

• Blue House, Frome
• Bridges Almshouses, Keynsham
• City of Wells Almshouses, Wells
• Gray's Almshouses, Taunton
• Helyar Almshouses, East Coker
• Partis College, Bath
• Sexey's Hospital, Bruton
• St John's Hospital, Bath
• St Margaret's Almshouses, Taunton

Staffordshire

• Dr Milley's Hospital, Lichfield
• Hospital of St John Baptist without the Barrs, Lichfield
• Sir Martin Noel's Almshouses, Mill Street, founded 1660 Stafford
• 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
• James Memorial Cottages Almshouse, Nechells Park Road, Nechells, Warwickshire <1881 Census>

West Midlands

• Ford's Hospital, Coventry
• Bond's Hospital, Coventry

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
• St John's Almshouses, Ripon

Wales

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

Northern Ireland

• Seaforde Almshouses, Newcastle Road, Seaforde, Co Down

References

1. 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.
2. "Duppa's Almshouses". National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
3. "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")