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List of almshouses in the United Kingdom

The following is a list of British almshouses:

Contents

Berkshire

  • Andrew's Almshouses, also known as the Widow's House, Speenhamland
  • Westende Almshouses, Wokingham
  • Dixon's Almshouses, Aldermaston
  • Donnington Hospital, 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)

    • Bristol

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

    • 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

  • Brownfield's Almshouses, Church Street, Burtonwood Warrington
  • Crewe Almshouses, Nantwich (built 1767)
  • Dixons Almshouses, Listed buildings in Christleton
  • Harriet Hope Almshouses, Crewe Almshouses, Nantwich
  • Nine Houses, Chester, Park Street, only six remain
  • 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

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

    • Cumbria

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

    • Derbyshire

  • Clergy Widows' Almshouses, also known as Spalden's Almshouses, School Lane, Ashbourne
  • Cooper's Almshouses, 1-11 Derby Road, Ashbourne
  • London Road Almshouses, Derby
  • Matthew Smiths Almshouses, Belper
  • Owlfield and Pegge's Almshouses, Ashbourne

    • Devon

  • John Greenway Gardens, Gold Street, Tiverton
  • Penrose Almshouses, Lichdon Street, Barnstaple, built by Richard Beaple
  • Salem Almshouses, Trinity Street, Barnstaple
  • Spurways Almshouses, Park Street, Crediton

    • 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 Almshouses, Stockton-on-Tees
  • St. John of God, (Stitchell House), Greatham

    • East Sussex

  • Percy and Wagner Almshouses, 1–12 Lewes Road, Hanover, Brighton
  • Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames Almhouses, St Leonard's-on-Sea, Hastings

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

    • Hampshire

  • Deane's Almshouses, Basingstoke see Grade II* listed buildings in Basingstoke and Deane
  • Forbes Almshouses, East Meon
  • Geffery's House, Hook
  • Thorner's Charity Homes, Southampton.

    • Herefordshire

  • Coningsby Hospital see Thomas Coningsby
  • Duppa's Almshouses, Pembridge
  • 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
  • Buntingford almshouses, Buntingford
  • Harrison Almshouses, Ware
  • Monson Almshouses, Broxbourne
  • St Mary's Almshouses, Ware
  • Bedford Almshouses, (Harpur Trust) Bedford
  • Bedford Almshouses, Watford
  • Warners Almshouses, Hitchin
  • Skynner's Almshouses, Hitchin
  • The Cloisters, Radcliffe Rd, Hitchin
  • Wynn Almshouses, Baldock

    • Isle of Wight

  • Hopsley's Almshouses, Crocker Street, Newport

    • 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
  • 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 (or Maison Dieu), Burton Street founded 1640 by Robert Hudson (created baronet by Charles II). Remodelled 1875 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 see William Wyggeston

    • Lincolnshire

  • Browne's Hospital, Stamford, Lincolnshire|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

    • Barnet

  • Jesus Hospital is a charity administering over one hundred almshouses in the Barnet area.
  • Lawrence Campe Almshouses, Whetstone (built 1612)
  • Leathersellers' Close, Barnet set up by the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers
  • Wilbraham Almshouses, Barnet (founded 1616)

    • Bexley

  • Styleman's Almshouses [built 1755]

    • Bromley

  • Free Watermen and Lightermen’s Almshouses, also known as Royal Watermen's Almshouses, Beckenham Road / Penge High Street, Penge
  • former Sir Robert Geffyre Almshouses, Mottingham

    • Camden

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

    • Chelsea

  • Royal Chelsea Hospital, Retirement & Nursing Home established in 1682 by Charles II for 300 veterans of the British Army

    • Croydon

  • Whitgift Almshouses, Whitgift Foundation, Croydon

    • Ealing

  • Hospital of St Lawrence, Acton

    • Enfield

  • Wright's Almshouses, Enfield

    • Greenwich

  • Penns Almshouses, South Street, Greenwich
  • Thomas Philipot's Almshouses, Eltham
  • Trinity Hospital

    • Hackney

  • Geffrye former almshouses, Hoxton, now the Geffrye Museum

    • Hammersmith and Fulham

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

    • Haringey

  • Drapers' Almshouses, Bruce Grove, Tottenham

    • Isleworth

  • Sermons Almshouses, Twickenham Road, Hounslow

    • Kingston-upon-Thames

  • 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, Boone's Chapel built 1683

    • Richmond upon Thames

  • Benn's Walk
  • 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

  • Almshouses, built 1854 by Earl Spencer in memory of his parents for 6 poor widows Church Brampton
  • Bede House, built 1423 by Archbishop Henry Chichele, for 12 Men and one woman to look after them Higham Ferrers
  • Sawyers Almshouses, Sheep Street built 1688 Kettering
  • Almshouses, 1-4 Church Street, Deddington built 1822 for 8 people Deddington, Northampton
  • Jesus Hospital, Hospital Hill (off Market Square), built 1593 by Owen Ragsdale, schoolmaster grammar school, for 24 Almsmen & a Principal Rothwell
  • Almshouses, Wellingborough Road built 1883 in memory of Frederick Maitland Sartoris by his father Rushden
  • Montague Hospital, Stamford Road dated 1611 (now a private house) Weekley

    • Nottinghamshire

  • Albert Ball Memorial Homes, Lenton, Nottingham
  • Old School and Almshouses, Bunny built 1700
  • Almshouses, Main Street, Grove
  • Almshouses, Perlethorpe cum Budby, built c 1890
  • Almshouses, West Bridgford
  • Dorothy Boot Homes, Wilford, Nottingham
  • The United Charities of Abel Collin, Beeston
  • The Brunts Charity, Toothill Lane/Leeming Street, Mansfield
  • Frances Longden Almshouses, Bramcote
  • Willoughby Almshouses, Cossall
  • Sloswicke's Hospital, Churchgate, East Retford
  • Holy Trinity Hospital, Hospital Road, West Retford
  • 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
  • Norris Almshouses, Sherwood, Nottingham
  • 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

  • Almshouses, Sheinston Street, Much Wenlock
  • Cludde Almshouses, 12 The Avenue, Wrockwardine now private houses
  • Ercall Magna Almshouses, Shrewsbury Road, Ercall Magna
  • Foxes Almshouses and Hosier's Almshouses together managed as Hoysers in Ludlow
  • Mercers' Almshouses, Shrewsbury
  • Millington's Hospital, Shrewsbury, architect John Hiram Haycock
  • St Leonard's, Bridgnorth
  • Shrewsbury Drapers Company, run by Shrewsbury Drapers Company, Shrewsbury
  • Town Almshouses, Newport
  • Weston Park Almshouses, Weston Park, Weston-under-Lizard

    • Somerset

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

    • Staffordshire

  • Almshouses, Manor Road, King's Bromley
  • Ash Almshouses, also called Joliffe Almshouses, Broad Street/Compton, Leek
  • Bagot Almshouses, Bagot Street, Abbot's Bromley
  • Condlyffe Almshouses, Condlyffe Road, Leek
  • Dr Milley's Hospital, Lichfield
  • Thomas Guy's Almshouses, Tamworth
  • Hospital of St John Baptist without the Barrs, Lichfield
  • Sir Martin Noel's Almshouses, Mill Street, founded 1660 Stafford
  • Walter Holdnall Almshouses, Kinver

    • 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
  • Margaret Ogilvie Almshouses, Thorpeness
  • St Mary's Almshouses, Godstone
  • Whiteley Village Walton on Thames
  • Windsor Almshouses, Farnham (built 1619)

    • Warwickshire

  • Nicholas Chamberlaine's Almshouses, Bedworth
  • Gramer Cottages, including James Gramer Almshouses, Mancetter Road, Mancetter
  • 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
  • The Guild Cottages, Bowling Green Street, Warwick 7 almshouses founded 1991 by combined Thomas Oken & Nicholas Eyffler Charity
  • The Almshouses, Castle Hill, Warwick 4 almshouses founded in c16 by Nicholas Eyffler
  • The Almshouses, Castle Hill, Warwick 6 additional almshouses added to the four above founded in c16 by Thomas Oken
  • Stoneleigh Old Almshouses, Stoneleigh (founded 1576 by Sir Thomas & Lady Alice Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey for five unmarried men and five women)
  • Widow's Charity Houses, High Street, Kenilworth (founded 1644 for poor widows by George Denton of Warwick)
  • Leamington Hastings Almshouse, Leamington Hastings (founded 1608 for 8 poor people by Humphrey Davis, schoolmaster)

    • Birmingham

  • Cadbury Almshouses, Mary Vale Road, Bourneville
  • Glovers Trust Almshouses, Chester Road, Royal Sutton Coldfield
  • Harborne Parish Lands Charity, Dore House, 56a Lordswood Road, Harborne
  • Harborne Parish Lands Charity, Harbourne House, Tibbetts Lane, Harborne, built 1984
  • Holte & Bracebridge Almshouses, Church Road, Erdington, re-built 1930
  • James Lloyd Trust, Heath Road, Bourneville new build houses
  • James Memorial Cottages Almshouse, Nechells Park Road, Nechells
  • Lench's Trust (est. 1525), Quinton
  • Lench's Trust, Ravenhurst Cottages, Ravenhurst Street, Camp Hill
  • Lench's Trust, Conybere Street, Highgate, Birmingham
  • Rhodes Almshouses, Soho Road/Belgrave Terrace, Handsworth
  • Walmley Almshouses, Royal Sutton Coldfield

    • Coventry

  • Bond's Hospital (founded 1506 by Thomas Bond, a draper, who became Mayor of Coventry in 1497), Hill Street
  • Ford's Hospital (founded 1509 by William Ford, a merchant, for six elderly people (five men & one woman)), Greyfriars Lane
  • Lady Herbert's Homes (built 1935 & 1937), Lady Herbert's Gardens, Chauntry Place, Coventry

    • Dudley

  • Almshouses, Church Road, Old Swinford
  • Peter Harris Almshouses, Seager's Lane, Brierley Hill
  • Sedgley Almshouses, Ettymore Road, Sedgley

    • Sandwell

  • Akrill Homes, West Bromwich
  • Harbourne Parish Lands Charity, almshouses around Hales Lane and Taylors Lane, Smethwick
  • Henry Mitchell Almshouses (Harborne Cottages), Coopers Lane, Smethwick. Built 1927

    • Solihull

  • Davenport Homes, Knowle,

    • Walsall

  • Chavasse Almshouses, Lichfield Road, Rushall
  • Crump's Almshouses, Eldon Street
  • Harper's Almshouses, 12-14 Bath Street
  • Henry Boys Almshouses, Wednesbury Road/Tasker Street
  • Marsh's Almshouses, Bath Road

    • Wolverhampton

  • Rogers Almshouses, Church Gardens, Powell Street Heath Town
  • Sedgwick Almshouses, Pennwood Lane, Lower Penn

    • West Sussex

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

    • Wiltshire

  • Hungerford Almshouses, Corsham (built 1668)
  • Duchess of Somerset's Hospital, Froxfield

    • East Yorkshire

  • Almshouses, 14 College Street, Kingston-upon-Hull
  • Linsdall's Hospital and Flanking Walls, Patrington
  • Northumberland Almshouses, 150 Fountain Road, Kingston-upon-Hull
  • The Charterhouse, Kingston upon Hull

    • North Yorkshire

  • Lady Lumley's Almshouses, Lady Lumley's School 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, built by Francis Crossley
  • Waterhouse Homes, Halifax
  • St Leonard's Almshouses, Horbury (built 1888)
  • Saltaire Almshouses, Saltaire
  • Ledsham Almshouses, Ledsham
  • Harrison's Almshouses, Sandal, Wakefield
  • Ripley Ville Almshouses, Bradford (built 1881)

    • York

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

    • Wales

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

    • Northern Ireland

  • Seaforde Almshouses, Newcastle Road, Seaforde, Co Down [1]

    • References

    List of almshouses in the United Kingdom Wikipedia
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