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List of almshouses in the United Kingdom

This is a list of British almshouses. It includes historial almshouses (some of which are no longer in use as charitable housing) and new-build almshouses.

England

Bedfordshire

Berkshire

  • Andrew's Almshouses, also known as the Widow's House, Speenhamland
  • Westende Almshouses, Wokingham
  • Dixon's Almshouses, Aldermaston (built 1706)
  • Donnington Hospital, Bucklebury & Iffley, Oxon (founded 1393)
  • Henry Lucas Hospital, Wokingham (1663–2001)
  • Langley Almshouses, Langley Marish (founded 1617)
  • Jesus Hospital, Bray (founded 1609, built 1627)
  • John Isbury's Almshouses, Lambourn (founded 1502, rebuilt 1852)
  • Place's or Jacob Hardrett's Almshouses, Lambourn (founded 1627, rebuilt 1827)
  • The Haven of Rest Almshouses, Maidenhead
  • St Mary's Almshouses, Newbury (built c.1970)
  • Pearces Almshouses, Newbury (founded 1671, relocated 1885)
  • Old Hunt's Almshouses, Newbury (endowed 1727, rebuilt 1817)
  • Coxedd's Almshouses, Newbury (founded 1690)
  • 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 (founded before 1200, built 1618, reconstructed c.1698)
  • St Peter's Almshouses, Brimpton (built 1854)
  • Seymour Almshouses, Langley Marish (founded 1679, extended 1687)
  • Vachel Almshouses, Reading (founded 1634, rebuilt 1864–1867)

Bristol

  • Colstons Almshouses, St Michaels Hill, which were built in 1691 and are Grade I listed
  • Dr White's Almshouse (founded 1613, moved 1968)
  • Foster's Almshouses, Colston Street (founded 1482, chapel built 1504, substantial restoration and rebuilding 1861–1883)
  • 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, King Street, which were built c.1696 and are Grade II* listed.
  • 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 Baronet, d. 1696), Middle Claydon, Buckingham (1654)
  • The Bishop Kings' Almshouses, Worminghall (1675)
  • 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

  • Burberry Homes, Buckden
  • Hospital of St. Anthony and St. Eligius, known as Spital House, a new-build almshouse in 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
  • Littleport Town Lands, Littleport
  • 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

Cornwall

Cumbria

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; they were Grade I listed in 1951.
  • 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)
  • Mary Parminter Charity, Point in View, Summer Lane, Exmouth

Dorset

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

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.
  • St John's Almshouses, Winchester
  • Earl of Southampton Trust, Titchfield

Herefordshire

Hertfordshire

Isle of Wight

  • Hopsley's Almshouses, Crocker Street, Newport

Kent

Lancashire

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
  • 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

Bexley

  • Styleman's Almshouses (built in 1755)

Bromley

Camden

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

Croydon

Enfield

Greenwich

Hackney

Hammersmith and Fulham

Haringey

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
  • Ingram's Almshouses, Mill Plat, Isleworth
  • Sermon's Almshouses, Twickenham Road, Isleworth

Islington

  • Charterhouse (Sutton's Hospital), Clerkenwell (founded 1611)

Kensington and Chelsea

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

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.
  • Christchurch Road Almshouses in East Sheen were built in 1927 and were funded by bequests from the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • 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.
  • Elizabeth Doughty Almshouses (with 12 flats), which opened on Grove Road (on the corner of Queen's Road) in 2025.
  • Elizabeth Twining Almshouses, Richmond, opened in 2024.
  • 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.
  • Juxon's Almshouses in East Sheen were built in 1911, funded by a bequest in 1626 from John Juxon.
  • 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.
  • Wright's Almshouses, Twickenham, were built in the second decade of the 21st century.

Southwark

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

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)
  • 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)
  • Parson Latham's Hospital in Oundle. Established in the 1600s by Parson Nicholas Latham. Situated on North Street in Oundle. Houses up to 14 ladies from within the Parishes of Oundle and Polebrook. 8 flats within the Grade 2 listed main building and 6 further new built bungalows in the grounds. Educational Grants are given annually to students from the Parish of Oundle and Polebrook.

Nottinghamshire

Oxfordshire

Shropshire

Somerset

Staffordshire

Suffolk

Surrey

Sussex

East Sussex

West Sussex

Warwickshire

  • Nicholas Chamberlaine Almshouses, Bedworth, dating from 1840 and Grade II* listed
  • Gramer Cottages, including James Gramer Almshouses, Mancetter
  • Guild of the Holy Cross, Church Street Almshouses, Stratford-upon-Avon, which are Grade I listed. They were founded in 1417/18 for old and needy members of the guild and in 1553 were transferred to Stratford upon Avon Corporation to accommodate 24 elderly townsfolk.
  • 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
  • Lawrence Sheriff Almshouses in Rugby

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
  • 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

  • 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 in 2020), Hill Street

Dudley

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

Walsall

Wolverhampton

Worcestershire

Wiltshire

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; 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

Northern Ireland

  • Annahilt Almshouses, Annahilt, County Down, built in 1833 and restored in 1987 for social housing purposes
  • Armagh Sheils Buildings, Armagh
  • Gill's Almshouses, Carrickfergus, County Antrim, designed by Charles Lanyon and erected in 1842
  • Killough Sheils Buildings, Killough, County Down
  • Seaforde Almshouses, Newcastle Road, Seaforde, County Down
  • Sheils Almshouses, Carrickfergus

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