List of almshouses in the United Kingdom

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The following is a list of British almshouses:

England

Berkshire
Donnington Hospital
Jesus Hospital, Bray
St Bartholomew's Hospital, Newbury
  • Andrew's Almshouses, also known as the Widow's House, Speenhamland
  • Westende Almshouses, Wokingham[1]
  • Dixon's Almshouses, Aldermaston
  • Donnington Hospital, Bucklebury & Iffley, Oxon
  • Horsemoor Green almshouses, Langley Marish
  • Jesus Hospital, Bray
  • John Isbury's Almshouses, Lambourn
  • Place's or Jacob Hardrett's Almshouses, Lambourn
  • The Haven of Rest Almshouses, Maidenhead[2]
  • 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

Bristol
Merchant Venturers Almshouses, Bristol

Buckinghamshire
  • The Almshouse Charity of Sir Ralph Verney (1st Bt d. 1696), Middle Claydon, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire (1654)
  • The Bishop King's Almshouses, Worminghall (1670)
  • Christ's Hospital, Buckingham
  • Miss Day's Almhouses, Amersham
  • Lady Dodd's Cottages, Ellesborough
  • Thomas Hickman's Almshouses, Aylesbury (1695)
  • Weedon's Almshouses, Chesham
  • Sir William Drake's Almhouse, Amersham
  • Dormer Almshouses (Hospital), Wing (1569)
  • Winwood Almshouses, Quainton (1687)
  • Stafford Almshouse, Shenley (1654)
  • Revis Almshouses, Newport Pagnell (1755)
  • Alice Carter's Almshouse, Brill (1591)
  • Dormer Almshouses, Hughendon
  • Finch Almshouses, Ravenstone
  • Ann Hopkins Smith Almshouses, Olney (1819)
  • Goodwin Almshouses, Waddesdon
  • St Scholastica's Retreat, Princes Risborough (founded in 1861 at Clapton, moved to Princes Risborough 1972)

Cambridgeshire
King St Almshouses, Cambridge
South's Almshouses, Buckden
  • Burberry Homes, Buckden
  • Hospital of St. Anthony and St. Eligius known as Spital House a new-build, Cambridge
  • Countess of Hardwicke Almshouses, Arrington
  • Jakenett's Almshouses, Cambridge
  • John Street Almshouses, Cambridge (new-build)
  • Jenyns House, March Almshouse and Pension Charity, March
  • Kings Street Almshouses, Cambridge
  • Lady Peyton's Almshouses, Isleham
  • Mansfield Almshouses, Chesterton, Cambridge
  • Moretons Charity Almhouses, Cottenham (built 1853)
  • Parsons Almshouses, Ely
  • Perse Almshouses, Cambridge
  • Pilgrim's Rest Almshouses, St Ives
  • South's Almshouses, Buckden (built 1850)
  • St John's Almshouses, Huntingdon, (built 1847)
  • Storey's Almshouses, Mount Pleasant, Cambridge
  • The Cambridge Royal Albert Homes, Cambridge

Cheshire
Tollemache Almshouses, Nantwich
Wilbraham's Almshouses, Nantwich

Cornwall
Padstow Almshouses
  • 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

Derbyshire
Owlfield Almshouses, Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Chandos Pole House, Barlborough

Devon
Spurways Almshouses, Crediton, Devon

Dorset
Sir Anthony Ashley's Almshouses, Wimbourne St Giles, Dorset

Durham
Fox Almshouses in Norton, County Durham

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
    Great Badminton Almshouses, Gloucestershire
  • Christopher & Sarah Bowley's Almshouses, Tetbury
  • Newlands almshouses, Newlands
  • Perry & Dawes Almshouses, Wotton-under-Edge
  • St Lawrence's Almshouses, Cirencester
  • The Gorse Almshouses, Coleford

Hampshire
  • Deane's Almshouses, Basingstoke: see Grade II* listed buildings in Basingstoke and Deane
  • Forbes Almshouses, East Meon[5]
  • Geffery's House, Hook[6]
  • Thorner's Homes, Southampton: founded by Robert Thorner in his Will of 1690, the first almshouses opened in 1793, after much arguing with the trustees of the time, over other gifts in his Will, such as to Harvard College. The charity houses poor widows and single women of limited financial means over 55 years of age.[7]
  • Hospital of St Cross, Winchester: said to be the oldest charitable institution in England. Founded by Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester, in 1136. Home for 25 elderly men, known as Brothers, under a Master. They belong to the Order of the Hospital of St Cross founded c.1132 and wear black trencher hats and robes with silver Jerusalem cross badge. The Order of Noble Poverty, founded 1445, wear claret trencher hats and robes with silver cardinal's badge in memory of Cardinal Beaufort.[8]

Herefordshire

Hertfordshire
Buntingford almshouses, Buntingford, Hertfordshire, with war memorial in the foreground
  • 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
  • Sayer Almshouses, High Street, Berkhamsted
  • Skynner's Almshouses, Hitchin
  • The Cloisters, Radcliffe Rd, Hitchin
  • Wynn Almshouses, Baldock

Isle of Wight
  • Hopsley's Almshouses, Crocker Street, Newport

Kent
The Hospital of Sir John Hawkins, Knight, in Chatham
St. Catherine's Hospital, Rochester

Lancashire
Lathom House Almshouses

Leicestershire
Lyddington Bede House
  • Bede House (or Maison Dieu), Burton Street founded in 1640 by Robert Hudson (created a baronet by Charles II) and remodelled in 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

Misses Moore’s Almshouses, Appleby Magna Built in 1839

Lincolnshire
  • Bede Houses, Louth
  • Orme Almshouses, Louth
  • Bede Houses, Tattershall
  • Browne's Hospital, Stamford, founded in 1485 and now Grade II* listed.[12]
  • 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
  • Long Sutton Consolidated

Barnet
Lawrence Campe Almshouses

Bexley
  • Styleman's Almshouses (built in 1755]

Bromley
Free Watermen and Lightermen's Almshouses, Penge

Camden

Chelsea
  • Royal Chelsea Hospital, retirement & nursing home established in 1682 by Charles II for 300 veterans of the British Army

Croydon

Enfield

Greenwich
Trinity Hospital

Hackney

Hammersmith and Fulham
St Joseph's Almshouses, Brook Green

Haringey

Hounslow
Sermon's Almshouses, Isleworth, Hounslow
Mary Tates Almshouses, Mitcham
Houblon's Almshouses, Richmond
Tollemache Almshouses, Ham
  • Butler’s Almshouses, Byfield Road, Isleworth
  • Farnell’s Almshouses, St John’s Road, Isleworth
  • Hopkin Morris Homes of Rest, Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick[16]
  • Ingram’s Almshouses, Mill Plat, Isleworth
  • Sermon's Almshouses, Twickenham Road, Isleworth

Kingston upon Thames
  • Cleaves Almshouses, Kingston (founded in 1550)

Lambeth
  • Caron's Almshouses, Fentiman Road, SW8[17]
  • City of London Almshouses (Gresham Almshouses), Ferndale Road, Brixton[18]
  • Thrale Almshouses, Streatham
  • Trinity Homes (Bailey's Almshouses), Acre Lane, Brixton

Lewisham

Merton

Richmond upon Thames

Southwark
  • Edward Allyn's Almshouses, Old College, Dulwich
  • Hopton's Almshouses, Bankside
  • Draper Almshouses, Glasshill Street

Tower Hamlets

Wandsworth
  • Abraham Dawes Almshouses, Putney
  • Dovedale Cottages, Battersea
  • St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Almshouses and Chapel, Tooting[20]

Westminster
  • Westminster Almshouses, Rochester Row

Norfolk
Great Hospital, Norwich

Northamptonshire
Almshouses, Titchmarsh
  • Almshouses, Church Brampton (built in 1854 by Earl Spencer in memory of his parents, for six poor widows)
  • Bede House, Higham Ferrers (built in 1423 by Archbishop Henry Chichele, for 12 men and one woman to look after them)
  • Sawyers Almshouses, Sheep Street, Kettering (built in 1688)
  • Almshouses, 1–4 Church Street, Dallington, Northampton (built in 1822 for eight people)
  • Jesus Hospital, Hospital Hill (off Market Square), Rothwell (built in 1593 by Owen Ragsdale, schoolmaster of the grammar school, for 24 Almsmen and a Principal)
  • Ponder's Almshouses, possibly the row of six houses on Glendon Road, opposite Ponder Street or where the bungalows on Ponder Street are now, Rothwell, Northamptonshire – 6 small tenements erected in or about 1714 by Thomas Ponder and three roods of land adjoining for poor widows of Rothwell
  • Almshouses, Wellingborough Road, Rushden (built in 1883 in memory of Frederick Maitland Sartoris by his father)
  • Almshouses, Titchmarsh (dating from 1756)
  • former Montague Hospital, Stamford Road, Weekley (dated 1611: now a private house, used as Mr Collin's Vicarage in Keira Knightly's Film "Pride & Prejudice")
  • Almshouses, Creaton (dating from 1825 and rebuilt in 1897)

Nottinghamshire
Albert Ball Memorial Homes
Willoughby Almshouses, Cossall
Winnings Almshouses, Welbeck Abbey, Worksop

Oxfordshire
Ewelme almshouses

Shropshire

Somerset
City of Wells Almshouses, Priest Row
Grays Almshouses, Taunton

Staffordshire

Suffolk

Surrey

Warwickshire
Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick
  • Nicholas Chamberlaine's Almshouses, Bedworth[26]
  • 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 – seven almshouses founded in 1991 by the combined Thomas Oken & Nicholas Eyffler Charity
  • The Almshouses, Castle Hill, Warwick – four almshouses founded in c16 by Nicholas Eyffler
  • The Almshouses, Castle Hill, Warwick – six additional almshouses added to the four above, founded in c16 by Thomas Oken
  • Stoneleigh Old Almshouses, Stoneleigh (founded in 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 in 1644 for poor widows by George Denton of Warwick)
  • Leamington Hastings Almshouse, Leamington Hastings (founded in 1608 for eight poor people by Humphrey Davis, schoolmaster)
  • Rose Cottage, Banbury Road, Ettington, once thatched and now a private home

Birmingham
Walmley Almshouses, Royal Sutton Coldfield
  • Cadbury Almshouses, Mary Vale Road, Bournville
  • 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, Bournville new build houses
  • James Memorial Cottages Almshouse, Nechells Park Road, Nechells[27]
  • 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
Ford's Hospital, 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
  • Bond's Lodge (founded 2020 Coventry Church (Municipal) Charities Three Storey, 45 Self Contained Apartments with large Courtyard Garden), Hill Street

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

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

Solihull
  • Davenport Homes, Knowle,

Walsall
Harper's Almshouses, 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
    Henry Boys' Almshouses, Walsall
  • Marsh's Almshouses, Bath Road
    Marsh's Almshouses, Walsall

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

Worcestershire
  • Burltons, Cookes and Sayers Almshouses, Bewdley

West Sussex
Sackville College from the High street

Wiltshire

East Yorkshire
  • Almshouses, 14 College Street, Kingston-upon-Hull
  • Beverley Consolidated Charity is an amalgamation of several local charities running almshouses in the town.

Historical almshouses include: Ann Routh's, Keldgate; Bede Houses, Lairgate; Charles Warton's, Minster Moorgate; Elizabeth Westoby's, Keldgate; Ellen Kennington's, Toll Gavel; Maisons de Dieu, Morton Lane; almhouses, Railway Street; William Parker's, Woodlands.

Newbuild almshouses include: Caroline Walker's, New Walkergate; Christopher Hobson Place, Kitchen Lane; Citadel Court, Wilbert Lane; Crown Mews, Hengate; David Gray Jackson's, Cartwright Lane; Eric Bielby Close, Railway Street; James Arthur Smedley's, Ladygate; Keldgate Bar, Keldgate; Leconfield Close, Keldgate; Porter Place, Trinity Lane.

North Yorkshire
Beamsley Hospital

South Yorkshire

West Yorkshire
Nettleton's Almshouses, Huddersfield, designed by William Henry Crossland
Sir Joseph Terry Almshouses, York

York

Scotland

Wales
Powis Almshouses, Chepstow

Northern Ireland
Seaforde Almshouses

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