List of almshouses in the United Kingdom

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The following is a list of British almshouses:

England[]

Bedfordshire[]

• Bedford Almshouses, Bedford ^[1]

Berkshire[]

• Andrew's Almshouses, also known as the Widow's House, Speenhamland
• Westende Almshouses, Wokingham^[2]
• 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^[3]
• 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)
  

  Fosters Almshouses, Bristol
• 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[]

• 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[]

• 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[]

• Crewe Almshouses, Nantwich (built 1767)
• Dixons Almshouses, Listed buildings in Christleton
• Harriet Hope Almshouses, Crewe Almshouses, Nantwichhe
• Hospital of St Lawrence, Acton
• Lumley Place Almshouses, Grade II listed buildings in Chester (east)
• Nine Houses, Chester, Park Street, only six remain
• Tollemache Almshouses, Nantwich (built 1870)
• Widows' Almshouses, Nantwich
• , 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
• , 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
• Sandes Hospital Cottages in Kendal, 1663.^{[citation needed]}

Derbyshire[]

• Chandos Pole House, Church Street, Barlborough, registered as Barlborough Hospital
• 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
• Thomas Cook Almshouses, Melbourne

Devon[]

• Almshouses, New Street, Great Torrington
• Burrough's Almshouses, Church Lane, Broadclyst
• Dartmouth United Charities Almshouses, Dartmouth
• Colmer Almshouses, Ford
• Cockington Almshouses, Cockington Lane, Cockington
• Gilberd's Almshouses, Old Exeter Road, Newton Abbot (new build)
• John Greenway Gardens, Gold Street, Tiverton
• Lady Lucy Reynell's Clergy Widows' Houses, Torquay Road, Newton Abbot
• Mackrell's Almshouses, Wolborough Street, Newton Abbot
• Penrose's Almshouses, Lichdon Street, Barnstaple, built by Richard Beaple
• Robert Hayman Almshouses, East Street, Newton Abbot
• Salem Almshouses, Trinity Street, Barnstaple
• Spurways Almshouses, Park Street, Crediton
• Strange & Armory Almshouses, Bridge Plats Way, Londonderry, Bideford (new build)

Dorset[]

• Barnes Homes Almhouses, Blandford Forum
• Ryves Almshouses, Blandford Forum
• Daniel Taylors Almshouses, Bridport
• South Street Almshouse Bridport
• Magdalen Almshouses Bridport
• Dorchester Municipal Charities, Dorchester
• Tregonwell Almshouses, Milton Abbas
• Shaftesbury Municipal Almshouse Charity, Shaftesbury
• St Johns' House, Sherborne^[4]
• Sir Anthony Ashley's Almshouses, Wimborne Minster
• Stretche's Almshouses, Wareham

Durham[]

• Durham Aged Mineworkers Homes Association Chester-le-Street^[5]
• Jacob Wright Cottages, Evenwood
• William Russell Bequest, Brancepeth
• 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; dating from 1795 and listed at Grade II.^[6]
• 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^[7]
• Geffery's House, Hook^[8]
• 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.^[9]
• 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.^[10]

Herefordshire[]

• Coningsby Hospital
• Duppa's Almshouses, Pembridge^[11]
• 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
• 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[]

• Charles Amherst Almshouses, Royal Tunbridge Wells
• Cutbush & Corrall Charity, Maidstone and Harrietsham
• Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr, Canterbury^[12]
• Faversham Almshouses
• Foord Almshouses, Borstal
• French Hospital (La Providence), Rochester (founded in 1718)
• Gartley Cottages, Dartford
• Hayward's Almshouses, Rochester
• The Hospital of Sir John Hawkins, Knight, Chatham (founded in 1594)
• John & Ann Smiths's Hospital, Canterbury^[13]
• 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 John's Hospital, Northgate, Canterbury (1084)
• St. Thomas Almshouses, Gravesend
• Trinity Court Almshouses, Aylesford
• Twisleton Almshouses, Dartford
• New College Almshouse, Cobham, Kent (built 1362, founded by Sir John de Cobham, based on a medieval chantry, partly rebuilt 1598 and occupied by elderly of the parish)
• Wrott and Hill Charity, Sutton-at-Hone

Lancashire[]

• Bank Top Almshouses, Blackburn
• Hartley Homes in Laneshawbridge, Colne
• John Brabin's Almshouses, Chipping
• Lathom House Almshouses, Lathom
• Nancy Derbyshire Almshouses, Blackburn
• Stydd Almshouses, Ribchester
• The Penny Almshouses, Lancaster

Leicestershire[]

• 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 a almshouse – building open and run by English Heritage), Lyddington
• Misses Moore’s Almshouses, Appleby Magna, built in 1839
• Powell & Welch Almshouse Charity Bitteswell
• Ravenstone Court, Coalville
• Trinity Hospital Almshouses, The Newarke, Leicester
• Wyggeston's Hospital, Leicester see William Wyggeston

Lincolnshire[]

• Bede Houses, Louth
• Orme Almshouses, Louth
• Bede Houses, Tattershall
• Browne's Hospital, Stamford, founded in 1485 and now Grade II* listed.^[14]
• Dawson's Almshouses, Grantham
• Fryer's Hospital, Stamford
• Lord Burghley's Almshouse, Stamford, founded 1597 to house 13 old men, one of whom was to serve as warden. Founded on site of the Medieval Hospital of St John the Baptist and St Thomas the Martyr which was founded c 1190 under Peterborough Abbey for the use of pilgrims and the poor. In disuse by the c16 when only the chapel continued in use. Bought in 1549 by William Cecil, Lord Burghley.
• 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

Greater London[]

Barnet[]

• Jesus Hospital is a charity administering over one hundred almshouses in the Barnet area.
• Lawrence Campe Almshouses, Whetstone, built around 1612 and funded by Lawrence Campe, a draper's merchant in the City of London^[15]
• Leathersellers' Close, Barnet set up by the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers
• Wilbraham Almshouses, Barnet (founded 1616)

Bexley[]

• Styleman's Almshouses (built in 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^[16]
• St Giles in the Fields Almshouses, Covent Garden
• St Pancras Almshouses^[17]

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

Enfield[]

• Wright's Almshouses, Enfield

Greenwich[]

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

Hackney[]

• former Geffrye almshouses, Hoxton, now the Geffrye Museum

Hammersmith and Fulham[]

• Sir William Powell's Almshouses, at Church Gate, Fulham, built in 1869 and Grade II* listed^[18]
• St Joseph's Almshouses, Brook Green; built in 1851 and Grade II listed^[19]

Haringey[]

• Drapers' Almshouses, Bruce Grove, Tottenham
• Fullers Almshouses, Wood Green

Hounslow[]

• Butler’s Almshouses, Byfield Road, Isleworth
• Farnell’s Almshouses, St John’s Road, Isleworth
• Hopkin Morris Homes of Rest, Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick^[20]
• 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^[21]
• City of London Almshouses (Gresham Almshouses), Ferndale Road, Brixton^[22]
• Thrale Almshouses, Streatham
• (Bailey's Almshouses), Acre Lane, Brixton

Lewisham[]

• Merchant Taylors' Boone's Charity, Boone's Chapel built 1683

Merton[]

• Mary Tate's Almshouses, Mitcham

Richmond upon Thames[]

• Benn's Walk, Richmond, built in 1983.^[23][24] They were built on the site of Benn's Cottages, which had been developed on land endowed by William Smithet in 1727 to the charity that was then administering Michel's Almshouses.^[23]
• Bishop Duppa's Almshouses, Richmond, founded by Brian Duppa, Bishop of Winchester, in 1661^[25] and now Grade II listed.^[26]
• Candler Almshouses, Twickenham were built in 1936 and are named after William Candler, a local grocer who left money to build them.^[27][28]
• Church Estate Almshouses, Richmond; Grade II listed.^[29] Most of the buildings^[29] date from 1843 but the charity that built them is known to have existed in Queen Elizabeth I's time and may have much earlier origins.^[30]
• Hickey's Almshouses, Richmond. Twenty almshouses, built in 1834, are Grade II* listed.^[31][32][33] A later block of almshouses, built in 1851 in the same style, is listed at Grade II.^[34][35]
• Houblon's Almshouses, Richmond; Grade II* listed.^[36] The oldest almshouses were built in 1757; a further two almshouses were built in 1857.^[37][38]
• 10–18 Manning Place, Richmond. The property was built in 1993 and was purchased in 2017 by The Richmond Charities for use as almshouses.^[39]
• Michel's Almshouses, Richmond; Grade II listed.^[40] The original ten almshouses were built in 1696 and were rebuilt in 1811. Another six almshouses were added in 1858.^[41][42][43]
• Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses, Richmond, founded in 1600.^[44][25] They were rebuilt in 1767^[45][46] and again in 1857. They were damaged during World War II and replaced with four newly built houses in 1955.^[46][45]
• Tollemache Almshouses, Ham, founded in 1892.^[47]

Southwark[]

• Edward Allyn's Almshouses, Old College, Dulwich
• 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
• St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Almshouses and Chapel, Tooting^[48]

Westminster[]

• Westminster Almshouses, Rochester Row

Norfolk[]

• Fulmerston's Almshouses, Thetford
• Great Hospital, Norwich (founded 1249)
• Trinity Hospital, Castle Rising, King's Lynn

Northamptonshire[]

• 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)
• The Hospital of St John Baptist and St John Evangelist (aka St John's Hospital), Bridge Street, Northampton (founded circa 1140), sold in 1870 to a Mr Mullinger who gave it to Roman Catholic Church. Refounded 1876 at Weston Favell as a convalescent hospital and is now a restaurant.
• St Thomas' Hospital Building, 74 St Giles Street, Northampton (founded 1450), on site of what is currently the Plough Hotel, for 12 poor people. In 1654 Sir John Langham funded an additional 6 people and Richard Massingberd another 1. Buildng abandoned 1834, demolished in 1874 during road widening for the new cattlemarket and its residents moved to a new building on St Giles Street. The new almshouse with distinctive castellations and stucco 2 storey front built in 1834. In addition is plaque remembering the important charity own, and still own, the whole block above 39 St Giles Street.

Nottinghamshire[]

• Albert Ball Memorial Homes, Lenton, Nottingham
• Old School and Almshouses, Bunny (built in 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: erected in 1685^[49]
• Sloswicke's Hospital, Churchgate, East Retford
• Holy Trinity Hospital, Hospital Road, West Retford
• Heath's Hospital, Mansfield
• Plumptre Hospital, Nottingham (founded in 1392)
• 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
• Almshouse of Robert Stiles, Wantage
• 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
• Longland Almshouses, Henley-on-Thames
• Newberry Almshouses, Henley-on-Thames
• Dr. Radcliffe's Almhouses, Steeple Aston
• Stones Court, City of Oxford
• Tomkins Almshouses, Abingdon
• Town Lands Of Wantage, Wantage
• 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 almshouses, Shrewsbury
• Town Almshouses, Newport
• Weston Park Almshouses, Weston Park, Weston-under-Lizard

Somerset[]

• Almshouses, Minehead
• Almshouses, Shepton Mallet
• Blue House, Frome, built in 1726 and Grade I listed^[50]
• Bridges Almshouses, Keynsham
• City of Wells Almshouses, Priest Row, Wells
• Gray's Almshouses, Taunton
• Helyar Almshouses, East Coker, erected between 1640 and 1660 and now Grade II listed^[51]
• Milward Almshouses, Keynsham
• Old Almshouse, Axbridge
• Partis College, Bath, built as large block of almshouses between 1825 and 1827, now Grade I listed^[52][53]
• Sexey's Hospital, Bruton, built around 1630. The West Wing and chapel are Grade I listed.^[54] The East Wing and gateway are Grade II listed.^[55]
• St John's Hospital, Bath
• St Margaret's Almshouses, Taunton
• William Portman Almshouses, Staple Fitzpaine
• Woborn Almshouses, Yeovil

Staffordshire[]

• Almshouses, Manor Road, King's Bromley
  

  Almshouses, King's Bromley
• Ash Almshouses, also called Joliffe Almshouses, Broad Street/Compton, Leek
• Bagot Almshouses, Bagot Street, Abbot's Bromley
  

  Bagot Almshouses, Abbot's Bromley
• Condlyffe Almshouses, Condlyffe Road, Leek
• Dame Paulet's Almshouses, Burton upon Trent
• 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, Stafford (founded in 1660)
• Walter Holdnall Almshouses, Kinver

Suffolk[]

• The Downs Almshouses, Stoke-by-Nayland
• Dreyer Almshouses, Bungay
• The Almshouse, Wickhambrook
• Tooley's and Smart's Almshouses, Ipswich
• The Guildhall Feoffment Trust, Bury St Edmunds
• Trinity Hospital, Long Melford
• Almshouses, Peasonhall (built as one house in C16, converted into almshouses in 1891)

Surrey[]

• Abbot's Hospital, Guildford, founded 1619, now Grade I listed
• Margaret Ogilvie Almshouses, Thorpeness
• St Mary's Almshouses, Godstone, founded 1872
• Whiteley Village, Walton on Thames
• Windsor Almshouses, Farnham, built 1619

Warwickshire[]

• Nicholas Chamberlaine's Almshouses, Bedworth^[56]
• Gramer Cottages, including James Gramer Almshouses, Mancetter
• Guild of the Holy Cross, Church Street Almshouses, founded 1417/18 for old and needy members of the guild and in 1553 transferred to Stratford upon Avon Corporation for 24 elderly townsfolk 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 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

West Midlands[]

Birmingham[]

• 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
• , Church Road, Erdington, re-built 1930
• James Lloyd Trust, Heath Road, Bournville new build houses
• James Memorial Cottages Almshouse, Nechells Park Road, Nechells^[57]
• 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
• Elizabeth Dowell's Almshouse Trust , Moseley

Coventry[]

• Bond's Hospital, Grade II* listed,^[58] built in 1506^[59]
• Ford's Hospital, traditionally known as Grey Friars Hospital; Grade I listed,^[60][61] it was founded in 1509.
• Lady Herbert's Homes (built 1935 & 1937), Lady Herbert's Gardens, Chauntry Place
• (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 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[]

• , Lichfield Road, Rushall
• , Eldon Street
• , 12–14 Bath Street
• , Wednesbury Road/Tasker Street
  

  Henry Boys' Almshouses, Walsall
• , Bath Road
  

  Marsh's Almshouses, Walsall

Wolverhampton[]

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

Worcestershire[]

• , Bewdley

West Sussex[]

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

Wiltshire[]

• Hungerford Almshouses, Corsham, built in 1668 and now Grade I listed^[62]
• Farley Hospital, Farley (built 1681)
• Duchess of Somerset's Hospital, Froxfield (1694, 1775 and 1813)
• Hospital of St John, Heytesbury (endowed c.1472, rebuilt 1769)
• Sir James Thynne House, Longbridge Deverill (founded 1655)
• Hospital of St John, Malmesbury (13th century)
• College of Matrons, Salisbury (founded 1682)
• Topps Almshouses, Stockton (built 1657)^[63]

Yorkshire[]

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.

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

North Yorkshire[]

• Beamsley Hospital, Beamsley, founded in 1593. The north wing is Grade I listed^[64] and the south wing is Grade II* listed.^[65]
• Fontaines Hospital, Linton
• 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[]

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

West Yorkshire[]

• Ripley Ville Almshouses, Bradford (built 1881)
• 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)
• Nettleton's Almshouses, Northgate, Almondbury, Huddersfield^[66] (1861–63), designed by William Henry Crossland^[67]

• Saltaire Almshouses, Saltaire
• Ledsham Almshouses, Ledsham^[68]
• Harrison's Almshouses, Sandal, Wakefield

York[]

• Ingram's Hospital (built 1630–1640)
• Terry Memorial Homes, Skeldergate (built 1898)

Scotland[]

• Cowane's Hospital, Stirling (established in 1637)

Wales[]

• Bangor Cathedral Almshouses, Bangor, Gwynedd
• Burton Almshouses, Newport
• Monmouth Alms Houses, Monmouth
• Powis Almshouses, Chepstow, Monmouthshire
• Queen Victoria Almshouses, Newport

Northern Ireland[]

• Annahilt Almshouses, Annahilt, Co Down
• Gill's Almshouses, Carrickfergus
• Seaforde Almshouses, Newcastle Road, Seaforde, Co Down [2]
• Sheils Almshouses, Carrickfergus^[69]

References[]

External links[]

• The Almshouse Association, representing independent almshouse charities throughout the United Kingdom
• 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")