List of almshouses in the United Kingdom

The following is a list of British almshouses:

England

Berkshire

• Andrew's Almshouses, also known as the Widow's House, Speenhamland
• Westende Almshouses, Wokingham
• Dixon's Almshouses, Aldermaston
• Donnington Hospital, Donnington, Bucklebury & Iffley, Oxon
• Horsemoor Green almshouses, Langley Marish
• 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
• Raymond's Almshouses, Newbury
• Essex Wynter Almshouses, Newbury
• Mabel Luke Almshouses, Newbury
• Robinson's Almshouses, Newbury
• St Bartholomew's Hospital, also known as King John's Almshouses, Newbury
• St Peter's Almshouses, Brimpton
• Seymour Almshouses, Langley Marish
• Vachel Almshouses, Reading

Brighton and Hove

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

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
• Christ's Hospital, Buckingham

Cambridgeshire

• Burberry Homes, Buckden
• Hospital of St. Anthony and St. Eligius known as Spital House a new-build, Cambridge
• John Street Almshouses, new-build Cambridge
• Kings Street Almshouses Cambridge
• Mansfield Almshouses, Chesterton, Cambridge
• Moretons Charity Almhouses, Cottenham (built 1853)
• South's Almshouses, Buckden (built 1850)
• St John's Almshouses, Huntingdon, (built 1847)

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

Cumbria

• St Anne's Hospital, Appleby-in-Westmorland

Derbyshire

• London Road, Derby
• Matthew Smiths Almshouses, Belper
• Owlfield Almshouses, Ashbourne

Devon

• Spurways Almshouses, Crediton
• John Greenway Gardens, Gold Street, Tiverton
• Greenway Close, Kings Street, Tiverton

Dorset

• Barnes Homes Almhouses, Blandford Forum
• Ryves Almshouses, Blandford Forum
• Daniel Taylors Almshouses, Bridport
• Dorchester Municipal Charities, Dorchester
• Tregonwell Almshouses, Milton Abbas
• Shaftesbury Municipal Almshouse Charity, Shaftesbury
• St Johns' House, Sherborne
• Sir Anthony Ashley's Almshouses, Wimborne Minster
• Stretche's Almshouses, Wareham

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

Gloucestershire

• Almshouses, Badminton
• Christopher & Sarah Bowley's Almshouses, Tetbury
• Perry & Dawes Almshouses, Wotton-under-Edge
• St Lawrence's Almshouses, Cirencester

Hampshire

• Deane's Almshouses, Basingstoke
• Forbes Almshouses, East Meon
• Thorner's Charity Homes, Southampton.

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
• Hayward's Almshouses, Rochester
• The Hospital of Sir John Hawkins, Knight, Chatham (founded 1594)
• John & Ann Smiths's Hospital, Canterbury^[3]
• Loam Court, Dartford
• Manwood Almshouses, Canterbury
• Municipal Charities of Dover
• Nuckell's Almshouse, St. Peters, Broadstairs
• The Retreat, Sevenoaks
• Richard Watts Almshouses, Rochester (founded 1579)
• St. Catherine's Hospital, Rochester (founded 1315)
• St. Thomas Almshouses, Gravesend
• Trinity Court Almshouses, Aylesford
• Twisleton Almshouses, Dartford
• Wrott and Hill Charity, Sutton-at-Hone

Lancashire

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

Leicestershire

• Bede House, Burton Street Melton Mowbray
• Lyddington Bede House (originally Bishop's Palace, sold at Reformation as town house and then became alms house - building open and run by English Heritage), Lyddington
• Powell & Welch Almshouse Charity Bitteswell
• Ravenstone Court, Coalville
• Trinity Hospital Almshouses, The Newarke, Leicester
• Wyggeston's Hospital, Leicester

Lincolnshire

• Browne's Hospital, Stamford
• Dawson's Almshouses, Grantham
• Fryer's Hospital, Stamford
• Lord Burghley's Almshouse, Stamford
• St Peter's Callis, Stamford
• Snowden's Hospital, Stamford
• Truesdale's Hospital, Stamford
• Williamson's Hospital, Stamford
• Hopkin's Hospital, Stamford
• The Spalding Town Husbands, over forty properties across the town, many new-builds, run by one charitable organisation

Greater London

Barnet

• Campe Almshouses, Whetstone (built 1612)
• Jesus Hospital is a charity administering over one hundred almshouses in the Barnet area.
• 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

Haringey

• Drapers' Almshouses, Bruce Grove, Tottenham

Kingston

• Cleaves Almshouses, Kingston (founded 1550)

Lambeth

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

Lewisham

• Merchant Taylors' Boone's Charity, new-built almshouses

Richmond upon Thames

• 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
• Trinity Green Almshouses, Mile End

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, Stamford Road dated 1611 (now a private house) Weekley
• Jesus Hospital, Hospital Hill (off Market Square), built 1593 by Owen Ragsdale, schoolmaster grammar school, for 24 Almsmen & a Principal Rothwell
• Sawyers Almshouses, Sheep Street built 1688 Kettering, Northamptonshire
• Almshouses, built 1854 by Earl Spencer in memory of his parents for 6 poor widows Church Brampton, Northamptonshire

Nottinghamshire

• The United Charities of Abel Collin, Beeston
• The Brunts Charity, Mansfield
• 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
• Almshouses, West Bridgford
• Winnings Almshouses, Welbeck Abbey, Worksop

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

Shropshire

• five almshouses, Sheinston Street, Much Wenlock
• Foxes Almshouses and Hosier's Almshouses together managed as Hoysers in Ludlow
• Mercers' Almshouses, Shrewsbury
• Millington's Hospital, Shrewsbury
• St Leonard's, Bridgnorth
• Shrewsbury Drapers Company, Shrewsbury
• Town Almshouses, Newport

Somerset

• Almshouses, Minehead
• Almshouses, Shepton Mallet
• Blue House, Frome
• Bridges Almshouses, Keynsham
• City of Wells Almshouses, Wells
• Gray's Almshouses, Taunton
• Helyar Almshouses, East Coker
• Milward Almshouses, Keynsham
• Old Almshouse, Axbridge
• Partis College, Bath
• Sexey's Hospital, Bruton
• St John's Hospital, Bath
• St Margaret's Almshouses, Taunton
• Woborn Almshouses, Yeovil

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

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

• Nicholas Chamberlaine's Almshouses, Bedworth^[4]
• 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^[5]
• Stoneleigh Old Almshouses, Stoneleigh (founded 1576 by Sir Thomas & Lady Alice Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey for five unmarried men and five women)

West Midlands

• First Walmley Almshouses, Royal Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham
• Glovers Trust Almshouses, Chester Road, Royal Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham
• Bond's Hospital (founded 1506 by Thomas Bond, a draper, who became Mayor of Coventry in 1497), Hill Street, Coventry
• Ford's Hospital (founded 1509 by William Ford, a merchant, for six elderly people (five men & one woman)), Greyfriars Lane, Coventry
• Lady Herbert's Homes (built 1935 & 1937), Lady Herbert's Gardens, Chauntry Place, Coventry
• Akrill Homes, West Bromwich, Sandwell

West Sussex

• 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

NORTH YORKSHIRE

• Lady Lumley's Almshouses, Thornton-le-Dale
• St John's Almshouses, Ripon
• Sir William Turner's Almshouses, Kirkleatham, Redcar

SOUTH YORKSHIRE

• John Eaton's Almshouses, Sheffield
• Shrewsbury Hospital, Sheffield

WEST YORKSHIRE

• Joseph Crossley's Almshouses, Halifax
• Sir Francis Crossley's Almshouses, Halifax
• Waterhouse Homes, Halifax
• St Leonard's Almshouses, Horbury (built 1888)
• Saltaire Almshouses, Saltaire
• Ledsham Almshouses, Ledsham ^[6]
• Harrison's Almshouses, Sandal, Wakefield
• Ripley Ville Almshouses, Bradford (built 1881)

YORK

• Ingram's Hospital (built 1630–1640)
• Our Lady's Row Almshouses, Goodramgate

Wales

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

Northern Ireland

• Seaforde Almshouses, Newcastle Road, Seaforde, Co Down

References

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")