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Lists of hospitals in the United Kingdom
List of almshouses in the United Kingdom
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    List of almshouses in the United Kingdom

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    The following is a list of British almshouses:

    England

    Bedfordshire

    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
    • 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
    • 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

    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 (misdated as 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
    • 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)
    • St Catherine's Almshouses and Chapel, Catherine Street, Exeter (ruins - founded by Canon John Stevens DD Doctor of Physick in 1457 to house 13 poor men)

    Dorset

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

    Durham

    Fox Almshouses in Norton, County Durham

    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
    • Geffery's House, Hook
    • 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.
    • 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.

    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 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.
    • 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

    Lawrence Campe Almshouses

    Bexley

    • Styleman's Almshouses (built in 1755)

    Bromley

    Free Watermen and Lightermen's Almshouses, Penge

    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

    Enfield

    Greenwich

    Trinity Hospital

    Hackney

    Hammersmith and Fulham

    St Joseph's Almshouses, Brook Green

    Haringey

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

    Hounslow

    Sermon's Almshouses, Isleworth, Hounslow
    Mary Tate's 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
    • Ingram’s Almshouses, Mill Plat, Isleworth
    • Sermon's Almshouses, Twickenham Road, Isleworth

    Kingston upon Thames

    Lambeth

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

    Lewisham

    Merton

    Richmond upon Thames

    • Benn's Walk, Richmond, built in 1983. 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.
    • Bishop Duppa's Almshouses, Richmond, founded by Brian Duppa, Bishop of Winchester, in 1661 and now Grade II listed.
    • Candler Almshouses, Twickenham were built in 1936 and are named after William Candler, a local grocer who left money to build them.
    • Church Estate Almshouses, Richmond; Grade II listed. Most of the buildings 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.
    • Hickey's Almshouses, Richmond. Twenty almshouses, built in 1834, are Grade II* listed. A later block of almshouses, built in 1851 in the same style, is listed at Grade II.
    • Houblon's Almshouses, Richmond; Grade II* listed. The oldest almshouses were built in 1757; a further two almshouses were built in 1857.
    • 10–18 Manning Place, Richmond. The property was built in 1993 and was purchased in 2017 by The Richmond Charities for use as almshouses.
    • Michel's Almshouses, Richmond; Grade II listed. The original ten almshouses were built in 1696 and were rebuilt in 1811. Another six almshouses were added in 1858.
    • Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses, Richmond, founded in 1600. They were rebuilt in 1767 and again in 1857. They were damaged during World War II and replaced with four newly built houses in 1955.
    • Tollemache Almshouses, Ham, founded in 1892.

    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

    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)
    • Raynesford Almshouses, 1–4 Church Street, Dallington, Northampton (founded 1673 by Richard Raynsford, a lawyer who became Chief Justice of the King's Bench under Charles II and lived at the manor house, buried in the church,)
    • Jesus Hospital, Hospital Hill (off Market Square), Rothwell (built in 1593 by Owen Ragsdale, schoolmaster of the grammar school (which was on the site of the library and closed in the 1970s), for 24 Almsmen and a Principal, still an almshouse but with 2 three storey extensions built in 1830s. The original building now has four larger flats, the extensions have six small flats, there is also a Warden's house (late c18) and opposite the Matron's cottage (1840) which is rented out. The trust also owns the adjoining building, Home Farm, and the car park area outside which adjoins Market Square)
    • 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)
    • Pickering Hospital, 6 cottages erected and endowed for support of 8 poor persons with preference for spinsters or widows 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 Knightley'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. Building abandoned 1834, demolished in 1874 during road widening for the new cattle market 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.
    • 1–6 Crick Road, West Haddon (built 1870 for retired people from West Haddon)

    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

    Sussex

    Percy and Wagner Almshouses

    East Sussex

    • Percy and Wagner Almshouses, 1–12 Lewes Road, Hanover, Brighton; dating from 1795 and listed at Grade II.
    • Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames Almhouses, St Leonard's-on-Sea, Hastings

    West Sussex

    Sackville College from the High Street

    Warwickshire

    Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick
    • Nicholas Chamberlaine's Almshouses, Bedworth
    • 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

    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
    • 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

    Ford's Hospital, Coventry
    • Bond's Hospital, built in 1506 and now Grade II* listed
    • Ford's Hospital, traditionally known as Grey Friars Hospital; Grade I listed, it was founded in 1509.
    • Lady Herbert's Homes (built in 1935 and 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

    Wolverhampton

    Worcestershire

    Wiltshire

    Yorkshire

    Beamsley Hospital
    Nettleton's Almshouses, Huddersfield, designed by William Henry Crossland
    Sir Joseph Terry Almshouses, York

    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; almshouses, 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

    South Yorkshire

    • Hollis Hospital, Sheffield. There are four accommodation blocks: East, West, Central and North West. The four blocks were designed by Howard C Clarke and built in 1903. Each of the four blocks is a Grade II listed building. The east block has an inscribed slate plaque dated 1703.
    • John Eaton's Almshouses, Sheffield
    • Shrewsbury Hospital, Sheffield

    West Yorkshire

    York

    Scotland

    Wales

    Powis Almshouses, Chepstow

    Northern Ireland

    Seaforde Almshouses

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