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List of almshouses in the United Kingdom

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{{Incomplete list|date=February 2011}}

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=

  • Bedford Almshouses, Bedford{{Cite web|url=https://thomaschristie.com/our-history/|title=Our History :Thomas Christie|access-date=2021-09-12|archive-date=2021-09-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912231244/https://thomaschristie.com/our-history/|url-status=live}}

=Berkshire=

File:Donnington Hospital almshouses - geograph.org.uk - 1656454.jpg]]

File:Bray, Jesus Hospital - geograph.org.uk - 977047.jpg

File:Bartholomews Hospital, Newbury (2).jpg

  • Andrew's Almshouses, also known as the Widow's House, Speenhamland
  • Westende Almshouses, Wokingham{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=South Central Almshouses |url=http://almshouses.co.uk/category/south-central-almshouses/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727223547/http://almshouses.co.uk/category/south-central-almshouses/ |archive-date=27 July 2013 |website=almshouses.co.uk |via=Internet Archive}}
  • Dixon's Almshouses, Aldermaston (built 1706){{NHLE|num=1319497|desc=The Alms Cottages and Linking Wall|access-date=11 November 2023}}
  • Donnington Hospital, Bucklebury & Iffley, Oxon (founded 1393){{cite web |url=http://www.donningtonhospital.com/history.htm |title=History of the Donnington Estate, Berkshire |author=Donnington Hospital Trust |date=2011 |work=Donnington Hospital Trust |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111030060147/http://www.donningtonhospital.com/history.htm|archive-date= 30 October 2011}}
  • Henry Lucas Hospital, Wokingham (1663–2001)
  • Langley Almshouses, Langley Marish (founded 1617){{cite web|url=https://www.langleyalmshouses.co.uk/history-of-the-almshouses|title=History of the Almshouses|website=Langley Almshouses|access-date=11 November 2023}}{{NHLE|num=1113384|desc=2,4,6,8, St Marys Road|access-date=11 November 2023}}
  • Jesus Hospital, Bray (founded 1609, built 1627){{cite web|url=https://housingcare.org/housing-care/facility-info-161661-jesus-hospital-almshouses-maidenhead-england|title=Jesus Hospital Almshouses|website=HousingCare|access-date=11 November 2023|archive-date=11 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111041951/https://housingcare.org/housing-care/facility-info-161661-jesus-hospital-almshouses-maidenhead-england|url-status=live}}{{NHLE|num=1319439|desc=Jesus Hospital, Including Chaplain's House, The Almshouses And The Chapel|access-date=11 November 2023}}
  • John Isbury's Almshouses, Lambourn (founded 1502, rebuilt 1852){{NHLE|num=1136331|desc=1-8, Market Place|access-date=11 November 2023}}
  • Place's or Jacob Hardrett's Almshouses, Lambourn (founded 1627, rebuilt 1827){{cite web|url=https://www.lambournalmshouses.org/our-almshouses|title=Our Story|website=The Almshouses of John Isbury and Jacob Hardrett|access-date=11 November 2023|archive-date=11 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111042833/https://www.lambournalmshouses.org/our-almshouses|url-status=live}}
  • The Haven of Rest Almshouses, Maidenhead
  • St Mary's Almshouses, Newbury (built c.1970){{cite web|url=https://www.newburyalmshouses.org/copy-of-cheap-street|title=St Mary's Almshouses|website=Newbury Almshouse Trust|access-date=11 November 2023|archive-date=11 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111044307/https://www.newburyalmshouses.org/copy-of-cheap-street|url-status=live}}
  • Pearces Almshouses, Newbury (founded 1671, relocated 1885){{NHLE|num=1211733|desc=17-18 West Mills|access-date=11 November 2023}}
  • Old Hunt's Almshouses, Newbury (endowed 1727, rebuilt 1817){{NHLE|num=1211731|desc=11 West Mills|access-date=11 November 2023}}
  • Coxedd's Almshouses, Newbury (founded 1690){{NHLE|num=1289869|desc=15 and 16, West Mills|access-date=11 November 2023}}
  • 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,{{cite web|url=https://www.berkshirehistory.com/odds/st_barts_hospital.html|title=St. Bartholomew's Hospital|website=Royal Berkshire History|author=David Nash Ford|access-date=11 November 2023|archive-date=11 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111152656/https://www.berkshirehistory.com/odds/st_barts_hospital.html|url-status=live}} reconstructed c.1698){{NHLE|num=1219550|desc=St Bartholomew's Hospital|access-date=11 November 2023}}
  • St Peter's Almshouses, Brimpton (built 1854){{cite web|url=https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MWB19692&resourceID=1030|title=St Peter's Almshouses, Brimpton|website=Heritage Gateway|access-date=11 November 2023|archive-date=11 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111153115/https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MWB19692&resourceID=1030|url-status=live}}
  • Seymour Almshouses, Langley Marish (founded 1679, extended 1687){{NHLE|num=1113387|desc=12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, St Marys Road|access-date=11 November 2023}}
  • Vachel Almshouses, Reading (founded 1634, rebuilt 1864–1867){{NHLE|num=1154678|desc=Vachel Almshouses|access-date=11 November 2023}}

=Bristol=

File:Merchantventurersalmshouses.jpg, Bristol]]

  • Colstons Almshouses, St Michaels Hill, which were built in 1691 and are Grade I listed{{NHLE|desc=Colstons Almshouses|num=1202546|accessdate=11 November 2023}}
  • Dr White's Almshouse (founded 1613, moved 1968){{cite web|url=http://drwhitesbristol.co.uk/history/|title=History|website=Dr White's Bristol|access-date=11 November 2023|archive-date=11 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111160113/http://drwhitesbristol.co.uk/history/|url-status=live}}
  • Foster's Almshouses, Colston Street (founded 1482, chapel built 1504,{{NHLE|desc=Chapel of the Three Kings of Cologne|num=1202144|accessdate=11 November 2023}} substantial restoration and rebuilding 1861–1883){{NHLE|num=1282306|desc=Foster's Almshouses Foster's Almshouses And Attached Walls, Railings And Gates|access-date=11 November 2023}} File:Fosters Almshouses, Bristol.jpg
  • 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.{{cite web|title=Merchant Venturers' Almshouses |work=historicengland.org.uk |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1202333 |publisher=Historic England |access-date=2007-02-21 }}
  • 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){{Cite ODNB |title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |date=2004-09-23 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/95013 |pages=ref:odnb/95013 |editor-last=Matthew |editor-first=H. C. G. |place=Oxford |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/95013 |access-date=2023-02-23 |editor2-last=Harrison |editor2-first=B. |editor3-last=Goldman |editor3-first=L.}}
  • 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=

File:King Street Almshouses (geograph 5141928).jpg

File:Souths Almshouses, Buckden (geograph 5315817).jpg

  • 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
  • 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=

File:Wilbrahams Almshouses Welsh Row Nantwich2.jpg

File:112-116 Welsh Row Nantwich.jpg

=Cornwall=

File:Alms House, Padstow - geograph.org.uk - 462883.jpg

=Cumbria=

  • St Anne's Hospital, Appleby-in-Westmorland
  • Sandes Hospital Cottages in Kendal, 1663.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}

=Derbyshire=

File:Owlfield Almshouses, Ashbourne, Derbyshire.jpg

File:Chandos Pole House, Barlborough.jpg

  • Chandos Pole House, Church Street, Barlborough, registered as Barlborough Hospital{{Cite web |title=Barlborough Hospital at Chandos Pole House |url=https://barlboroughhospital.wordpress.com/ |access-date=2024-06-26 |website=Barlborough Hospital at Chandos Pole House |language=en-GB}}
  • 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{{Cite web |date= |title=Midlands Almshouses « Categories « Almshouses {{!}} Retirement Living and Accommodation – Page 3 |url=http://almshouses.co.uk/category/midlands-almshouses/page/3/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811231555/http://almshouses.co.uk/category/midlands-almshouses/page/3/ |archive-date=2014-08-11 |access-date= |website=almshouses.co.uk}}
  • Owlfield and Pegge's Almshouses, Ashbourne
  • Thomas Cook Almshouses, Melbourne

=Devon=

File:Spurways Almshouses, Crediton, Devon.jpg

  • Almshouses, New Street, Great Torrington
  • Burrough's Almshouses, Church Lane, Broadclyst
  • Dartmouth United Charities Almshouses, Dartmouth{{Cite web |title=Dartmouth United Charities - Almshouses |url=https://www.dartmouthunitedcharities.org.uk/almshouses.html |access-date=2024-06-26 |website=Dartmouth United Charities |language=en}}
  • 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.{{NHLE|num=1385215 |desc=Penrose Almshouses |accessdate=18 April 2018}}
  • 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=

File:Sir Anthony Ashley's Almshouses.jpg

  • 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
  • St George's Almshouses, Poole{{Cite web |title=St George's Almshouses, Poole {{!}} Educational Images |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/educational-images/st-georges-almshouses-9209 |access-date=2023-01-03 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en |archive-date=2023-01-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103122328/https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/educational-images/st-georges-almshouses-9209 |url-status=live }}{{National Heritage List for England |num=1223103 |desc=St George's Almshouses|fewer-links=yes}}
  • Shaftesbury Municipal Almshouse Charity, Shaftesbury
  • St Johns' House, Sherborne{{Cite web|url=https://stjohnshouse.org/|title=St Johns' House | Residential Home – Sherborne, Dorset – Residential Home for independent later living in Sherborne, Dorset|access-date=2024-06-26|archive-date=2024-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329083317/https://stjohnshouse.org/|url-status=live}}
  • Sir Anthony Ashley's Almshouses, Wimborne St Giles
  • Stretche's Almshouses, Wareham

=Durham=

File:Fox almshouses, Norton village, County Durham.jpg, County Durham]]

  • Durham Aged Mineworkers Homes Association Chester-le-Street{{cite web |title=Home page: Durham Aged Mineworkers' Homes Association |url=https://www.durhamhomes.org.uk/ |website=DAMHA |access-date=2024-06-25 |archive-date=2024-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240622022600/https://www.durhamhomes.org.uk/ |url-status=live }} is the largest almshouse charity in the UK. It covers the entirety of the Durham coalfield, and manages approximately 1800 homes.
  • 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

=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{{Cite web |url=http://www.eastmeonhistory.net/house-histories/almshouses/forbes-almshouses-east-meon/ |title=Forbes Almshouses |access-date=2013-05-18 |archive-date=2015-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216021519/http://www.eastmeonhistory.net/house-histories/almshouses/forbes-almshouses-east-meon/ |url-status=dead }}
  • Geffery's House, Hook{{citation|author=The Ironmonger's Company|title=Sir Robert Geffery's Almshouse Trust: Geffery's House|access-date=4 October 2020|url=http://www.ironmongers.org/almshouses_gefferys_house.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425065512/http://www.ironmongers.org/almshouses_gefferys_house.htm|archive-date=2017-04-25}}
  • 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.{{cite web|title=Thorner's Homes|access-date=4 October 2020|url=http://www.thorners.org.uk}}
  • 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.{{cite web|title=The Hospital of St Cross and Almshouse of Noble Poverty|date=24 September 2020|access-date=4 October 2020|url=https://hospitalofstcross.co.uk/|archive-date=21 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921092856/https://hospitalofstcross.co.uk/|url-status=live}}
  • St John's Almshouses, Winchester{{Cite web |title=Almshouses |url=https://stjohnswinchester.co.uk/housing-care-and-community-support/almshouses/ |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=St John's Winchester |language=en-GB |archive-date=2024-01-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114104121/https://stjohnswinchester.co.uk/housing-care-and-community-support/almshouses/ |url-status=live }}

=Herefordshire=

  • Coningsby Hospital, Hereford
  • Duppa's Almshouses, Pembridge, which are Grade II listed{{NHLE | num=1081719 | desc=Duppa's Almshouses | date = 19 August 1953|access-date=13 January 2022}}
  • 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=

File:Buntingford almshouses.jpg, Buntingford, Hertfordshire, with war memorial in the foreground]]

=Isle of Wight=

  • Hopsley's Almshouses, Crocker Street, Newport

=Kent=

File:The Hospital of Sir John Hawkins Knight in Chatham - geograph.org.uk - 1148086.jpg, in Chatham]]

File:The Ancient Hospital of St Catherines, Star Hill, Rochester - geograph.org.uk - 1147968.jpg

  • Charles Amherst Almshouses, Royal Tunbridge Wells
  • Cutbush & Corrall Charity, Maidstone and Harrietsham
  • Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr, Canterbury,{{citation|title=Eastbridge Hospital Official Website|url=https://www.eastbridgehospital.org.uk/|access-date=2020-05-26|archive-date=2020-04-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200405214512/http://www.eastbridgehospital.org.uk/|url-status=live}} which is a Grade I listed{{NHLE| num= 1085030| desc =EASTBRIDGE HOSPITAL |accessdate = 23 March 2015}}
  • Faversham Almshouses, which are Grade II-listed and are operated by the trustees of Faversham Municipal Charities.{{Cite web |title=The Faversham Almshouses & Faversham Municipal Charities |url=https://www.favershamalmshouses.org/ |access-date=2023-08-17 |website=www.favershamalmshouses.org |language=en}}
  • 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{{citation|title=John & Ann Smiths's Hospital|date=2015|url=http://www.canterbury-archaeology.org.uk/smith/4590809547|author=Canterbury Historical & Archaeological Society|access-date=25 November 2016|website=Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society (CHAS)|archive-date=26 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161126004751/http://www.canterbury-archaeology.org.uk/smith/4590809547|url-status=live}}. Web page cites Cantacuzino (1970) and Ingram Hill (2004) as the sources.
  • 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's Almshouses (Pinnocks Charity), Gravesend (founded 1624)
  • 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
  • Wye Almhouses,{{Cite web |title=Wye Almshouse Charity |url=https://www.wyeparishcouncil.gov.uk/wye-almshouses/ |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=www.wyeparishcouncil.gov.uk |language=en}} Wye, Kent

=Lancashire=

File:Lathom Almshouses.JPG

=Leicestershire=

File:Lyddington Bede House - geograph.org.uk - 1303034.jpg]]

  • 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{{NHLE|num=1062247|desc=Browne's hospital|grade=II*|accessdate=31 March 2013}}
  • 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==

File:Lawrence Campe Almshouses 03.JPG]]

  • 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[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol6/pp36-37 Friern Barnet: Charities for the poor.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031051612/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol6/pp36-37 |date=2020-10-31 }} A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 6, Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey With Highgate. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1980. British History Online. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  • Leathersellers' Close, Barnet set up by the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers
  • Wilbraham Almshouses, Barnet (founded 1616)

==Bexley==

  • Styleman's Almshouses (built in 1755)

==Bromley==

File:Penge Watermen's Almshouses.JPG, Penge]]

  • Free Watermen and Lightermen's Almshouses, also known as Royal Watermen's Almshouses, Beckenham Road / Penge High Street, Penge
  • Sir Robert Geffyre Almshouses, Mottingham{{Cite web |date= |title=Sir Robert Geffyre Almshouses, Mottingham, 1967 {{!}} {{!}} Ideal Homes |url=http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/bromley/assets/galleries/mottingham/sir-robert-geffyre-almshouses/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190201073337/http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/bromley/assets/galleries/mottingham/sir-robert-geffyre-almshouses/ |archive-date=2019-02-01 |access-date= |website=}}

==Camden==

  • Greenwoods Almshouses, Camden{{Cite web|url=http://www.harrisonhousing.org.uk/pages/our-accomodation/greenwoods-almshouses.htm/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116150424/http://harrisonhousing.org.uk/pages/our-accomodation/greenwoods-almshouses.htm/|url-status=dead|title=Greenwoods Almshouses|archivedate=January 16, 2017}}
  • St Giles in the Fields Almshouses, Covent Garden
  • St Pancras Almshouses{{Cite web|url=http://www.stpancrasalmshouses.org/|title=St Pancras Almshouses - Introduction | www.stpancrasalmshouses.org|website=www.stpancrasalmshouses.org}}

==Chelsea==

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

==Croydon==

==Enfield==

==Greenwich==

File:360SFEC LONDON-20070917.JPG]]

  • Penns Almshouses, South Street, Greenwich
  • Thomas Philipot's Almshouses, Eltham{{Cite web |title=Thomas Philipot's Almshouse Charity, Passey Place, Eltham, London SE9 |url=http://www.philipots.org.uk/ |access-date=2024-06-26 |website=www.philipots.org.uk}}
  • Queen Elizabeth College
  • Trinity Hospital

==Hackney==

==Hammersmith and Fulham==

File:St_Joseph's_Almshouses,_Brook_Green,_London_01.JPG, Brook Green]]

==Haringey==

==Hounslow==

File:Sermons Almshouses, Hounslow.jpg

File:Mary Tates Almshouses, Mitcham (geograph 2958270).jpg

File:HoublonsAlmshouses.jpg, Richmond]]

File:Tollemache Almshouses.JPG]]

  • Butler's Almshouses, Byfield Road, Isleworth
  • Farnell's Almshouses, St John's Road, Isleworth
  • Hopkin Morris Homes of Rest, Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick{{Cite web |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/educational-images/hopkin-morris-homes-of-rest-strand-on-the-green-chiswick-11738 |title=Hopkin Morris Homes Of Rest, Strand On The Green, Chiswick, Greater London |website=Historic England |access-date=21 June 2018 |archive-date=22 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622164521/https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/educational-images/hopkin-morris-homes-of-rest-strand-on-the-green-chiswick-11738 |url-status=live }}
  • Ingram's Almshouses, Mill Plat, Isleworth
  • Sermon's Almshouses, Twickenham Road, Isleworth

==Kingston upon Thames==

==Lambeth==

  • Caron's Almshouses, Fentiman Road, SW8{{Cite web |url=http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.php?ID=LAM007a |title=Caron's Almshouses |website=London Gardens Online |access-date=30 March 2019 |archive-date=30 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330233218/http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.php?ID=LAM007a |url-status=live }}
  • City of London Almshouses (Gresham Almshouses), Ferndale Road, Brixton{{Cite web|url=http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/housing-and-council-tax/supported-and-sheltered-housing/sheltered-housing-for-older-people/Pages/The-City-of-London-Almshouses-Trust.aspx/|archiveurl=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130405003317/http%3A//www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/housing%2Dand%2Dcouncil%2Dtax/supported%2Dand%2Dsheltered%2Dhousing/sheltered%2Dhousing%2Dfor%2Dolder%2Dpeople/Pages/The%2DCity%2Dof%2DLondon%2DAlmshouses%2DTrust.aspx|url-status=dead|title=City of London Almshouses|archivedate=April 5, 2013}}
  • Thrale Almshouses, Streatham
  • Trinity Homes (Bailey's Almshouses), Acre Lane, Brixton

==Lewisham==

==Merton==

==Richmond upon Thames==

  • Benn's Walk, Richmond, built in 1983.{{cite web | url=http://www.charityperformance.com/charity-details.php?id=12315 | title=Richmond Charities | publisher=DG Publishing | website=Charity Performance | accessdate=31 July 2015 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415095906/http://www.charityperformance.com/charity-details.php?id=12315 | archivedate=15 April 2014 }} 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.{{National Heritage List for England |num=1253024 |desc=Bishop Duppa's Almshouses|date=10 January 1950|accessdate= 18 September 2020}}
  • Candler Almshouses, Twickenham were built in 1936 and are named after William Candler, a local grocer who left money to build them.{{Cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol3/p166|title=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3, Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington, p.166. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1962.|editor=Reynolds, Susan|date=1962|website=British History Online|access-date=20 November 2019|archive-date=27 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927081532/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol3/p166|url-status=live}}{{Cite journal |title= William Candler and the Almshouses|last=Alexander |first=Peter H |date=June 2003 |journal=West Middlesex Family History Journal |url= http://www.west-middlesex-fhs.org.uk/downloads/2003%20No%202%20June.pdfvolume=21 |issue=2 |pages=26–29 |issn=0142-517X}}
  • Christchurch Road Almshouses in East Sheen were built in 1927 and were funded by bequests from the 18th and 19th centuries.{{Cite web |url=https://www.richmondcharities.org.uk/our-almshouses/christchurch-road-almshouses |title= Christchurch Road Almshouses |publisher=Richmond Charities |access-date=2 August 2024}}
  • Church Estate Almshouses, Richmond; Grade II listed.{{National Heritage List for England |num=1252805 |desc=Richmond Church, Estate Almshouses|date = 25 May 1983|accessdate=7 July 2020}} 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.{{cite web| url=http://www.richmondcharities.org.uk/almshouses/church-estate-almshouses| title=Church Estate Almshouses| publisher=The Richmond Charities| accessdate=9 July 2015| archive-date=9 July 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709191453/http://www.richmondcharities.org.uk/almshouses/church-estate-almshouses| url-status=live}}
  • Elizabeth Twining Almshouses, Richmond, opened in 2024.{{cite news| url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/richmond-charities-opens-almshouse-disabled-050000528.html|access-date = 5 December 2024|author= Facey, Liv|title= Richmond Charities opens new almshouse for disabled elderly residents|date = 4 December 2024|work= Sutton and Croydon Guardian|via= Yahoo News}}{{Cite web |date=13 June 2024 |title=Are you in need of housing? |url=https://www.richmondcharities.org.uk/images/site/files/2024-Richmond_Charities_leaflet_1pp.pdf |access-date=5 December 2024 |website=Richmond Charities}}
  • Hickey's Almshouses, Richmond. Twenty almshouses, built in 1834, are Grade II* listed.{{cite book | title=The Buildings of England – London 2: South | publisher=Penguin Books | author1= Cherry, Bridget|author2= Pevsner, Nikolaus|author-link1=Bridget Cherry | author-link2= Nikolaus Pevsner | year=1983 | location=London | pages=529 | isbn=0-14-0710-47-7}}{{National Heritage List for England |num=1262108 |desc=Hickey's Almshouses, including chapel and lodges|date=10 January 1950|access-date= 20 February 2017}}{{cite web | url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F235265/ | title=Chapel of St Francis, Hickey's Almshouses, Richmond | publisher=The National Archives (UK) | work=Discovery | access-date=15 February 2016 | archive-date=26 June 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240626113233/https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F235265/ | url-status=live }} A later block of almshouses, built in 1851 in the same style, is listed at Grade II.{{National Heritage List for England |num= 1252832|desc=Hickey's Almshouses |date = 25 May 1983|access-date= 20 February 2017}}{{cite web | url=http://www.richmondcharities.org.uk/almshouses/hickey-s-almshouses | title=Hickey's Almshouses | publisher=The Richmond Charities | access-date=14 April 2014 | archive-date=13 August 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813152403/http://www.richmondcharities.org.uk/almshouses/hickey-s-almshouses | url-status=live }}
  • Houblon's Almshouses, Richmond; Grade II* listed.{{NHLE | num=1253033 | date = 10 January 1950|desc=Houblon's Almhouses | accessdate=3 January 2019}} The oldest almshouses were built in 1757; a further two almshouses were built in 1857.{{cite web| url=http://www.richmondcharities.org.uk/almshouses/houblon-s-almshouses| title=Houblon's Almshouses| publisher=The Richmond Charities| accessdate=8 July 2015| archive-date=9 July 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709045017/http://www.richmondcharities.org.uk/almshouses/houblon-s-almshouses| url-status=live}}
  • Juxon's Almshouses in East Sheen were built in 1911, funded by a bequest in 1626 from John Juxon.{{Cite web |url=https://www.richmondcharities.org.uk/our-almshouses/juxons-almshouses |title= Juxon's Almshouses |publisher=Richmond Charities |access-date=2 August 2024}}
  • 10–18 Manning Place, Richmond. The property was built in 1993 and was purchased in 2017 by The Richmond Charities for use as almshouses.{{cite web |url=https://www.richmondcharities.org.uk/our-almshouses/manning-place-almshouses |title=Manning Place |publisher=Richmond Charities |access-date=2 August 2024}}
  • Michel's Almshouses, Richmond; Grade II listed.{{National Heritage List for England |num=1261952 |desc=Michel's Almshouses, and Front Wall, Railings and Entrance Gates|date= 24 December 1968|accessdate=14 June 2020}} The original ten almshouses were built in 1696 and were rebuilt in 1811. Another six almshouses were added in 1858.{{cite web| url=http://www.richmondcharities.org.uk/almshouses/michel-s-almshouses| title=Michel's Almshouses| publisher=The Richmond Charities| accessdate=8 July 2015| archive-date=9 July 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709005312/http://www.richmondcharities.org.uk/almshouses/michel-s-almshouses| url-status=live}}
  • Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses, Richmond, founded in 1600.{{cite book | title=London, volume 5 | publisher=J Stratford | author=Hughson, David | year=1808 | location=London | pages=380}}{{cite web | url=http://www.richmond.gov.uk/local_history_almshouses.pdf | title=The Almshouses of Richmond | publisher=London Borough of Richmond upon Thames | website=Local Studies Notes | access-date=21 April 2013 | archive-date=12 September 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912071601/http://www.richmond.gov.uk/local_history_almshouses.pdf | url-status=live }} 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.{{cite web | url= http://www.thevineyardrichmond.info/queen-elizabeth%27s-almshouses.html | title= Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses | author= Orr, Stephen | work= The Vineyard, Richmond: An Online History for residents, their families and friends | access-date= 2 May 2013 | archive-date= 20 October 2013 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131020035501/http://www.thevineyardrichmond.info/queen-elizabeth%27s-almshouses.html | url-status= dead }}{{cite web | url=http://www.richmondcharities.org.uk/almshouses/queen-elizabeth-s-almshouses | title=Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses | publisher=The Richmond Charities | access-date=14 April 2014 | archive-date=13 August 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813152419/http://www.richmondcharities.org.uk/almshouses/queen-elizabeth-s-almshouses | url-status=live }}
  • Tollemache Almshouses, Ham, founded in 1892.{{cite wikisource |wslink=Page:The Victoria History of the County of Surrey Volume 3.djvu/684 |title=The Victoria History of the County of Surrey Volume 3 |page=516}}
  • Wright's Almshouses, Twickenham, were built in the second decade of the 21st century.{{Cite web |url=https://www.richmondcharities.org.uk/our-almshouses/wrights-almshouses |title= Wright's Almshouses |publisher=Richmond Charities |access-date=2 August 2024}}

==Southwark==

  • Edward Allyn's Almshouses, Old College, Dulwich
  • Hopton's Almshouses, Bankside, built in 1746–49 and now Grade II* listed{{NHLE|num=1385622|desc=Hopton's Almshouses|access-date= 22 September 2016}}
  • former Drapers Almshouses, Glasshill Street
  • Walter's Close, Brandon Street

==Tower Hamlets==

==Wandsworth==

  • Abraham Dawes Almshouses, Putney
  • Dovedale Cottages, Battersea
  • St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Almshouses and Chapel, Tooting{{National Heritage List for England |num=1065533 |desc=St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Almshouses and Chapel|access-date= 31 March 2017}}

==Westminster==

  • Westminster Almshouses, Rochester Row

=Norfolk=

File:Great Hospital Cloister Pan.jpg, Norwich]]

=Northamptonshire=

File:Almshouses Titchmarsh - geograph.org.uk - 1024858.jpg

  • 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=

File:The Albert Ball Memorial Homes - geograph.org.uk - 1047166.jpg]]

File:Cossall Almshouses - geograph.org.uk - 60326.jpg, Cossall]]

File:Winnings_Almshouses,_Wellbeck_Abbey,_Worksop.jpg, Worksop ]]

=Oxfordshire=

File:Ewelme (Oxon) Medieval Almshouses - geograph.org.uk - 69735.jpg

=Shropshire=

=Somerset=

File:Priest Row Almshouses.jpg

File:Grays Almshouses, Taunton.jpg

  • Almshouses, Midsomer Norton
  • Almshouses, Minehead
  • Almshouses, Shepton Mallet
  • Almshouses, Worle
  • Blue House, Frome, built in 1726 and Grade I listed{{NHLE | desc=The Blue House | num=1345500 | accessdate=29 August 2007}}
  • Bridges Almshouses, Keynsham
  • City of Wells Almshouses, Priest Row, Wells
  • Gray's Almshouses, Taunton, which are Grade I listed{{NHLE|num=1232341 |desc=Nos. 1–10 Gray's Almshouses |date = 4 June 1952|access-date=13 January 2022}}
  • Helyar Almshouses, East Coker, erected between 1640 and 1660 and now Grade II listed{{NHLE|desc=Helyar Almshouses|num=1345804|accessdate=19 October 2011}}
  • Milward Almshouses, Keynsham
  • Old Almshouse, Axbridge
  • Partis College, Bath, built as large block of almshouses between 1825 and 1827, now Grade I listed{{cite web|url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443111|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018003227/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443111|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-18|title=Partis College, including lodge and wrought iron gates|work=Images of England|publisher=English Heritage|accessdate=2009-07-19}}{{NHLE|num=1396304|desc=Partis College|access-date=17 January 2020}}
  • Sexey's Hospital, Bruton, built around 1630. The West Wing and chapel are Grade I listed.{{NHLE|num=1176086|desc=Sexey's Hospital: West Wing and chapel|accessdate=3 July 2009}} The East Wing and gateway are Grade II listed.{{NHLE|num=1346164|desc=East Wing and gateway|accessdate=3 July 2009}}
  • St John's Hospital, Bath, which is Grade I listed{{cite web|url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=442408|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017222351/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=442408|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-17|title=St John's Hospital (including Chapel Court House)|work=Images of England|publisher=English Heritage|access-date=2009-07-25}}
  • St Margaret's Almshouses, Taunton
  • William Portman Almshouses, Staple Fitzpaine, which are Grade II* listed{{NHLE|num=1060273|desc=Almshouses|date = 25 February 1955|access-date=13 January 2022}}
  • Woborn Almshouses, Yeovil

=Staffordshire=

=Suffolk=

=Surrey=

=Sussex=

Image:Percy and Wagner Almshouses, Lewes Road, Brighton (March 2013).JPG]]

==East Sussex==

  • Percy and Wagner Almshouses, 1–12 Lewes Road, Hanover, Brighton; dating from 1795 and now Grade II listed{{NHLE|desc=Nos. 1–12 (consecutive) Percy and Wagner Almshouses, Lewes Road (east side), Brighton|num=1381669|grade=II|access-date=29 April 2014}}
  • Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames Almhouses, St Leonard's-on-Sea, Hastings

==West Sussex==

File:Sackville College Simon Carey.jpg

=Warwickshire=

File:Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick.jpg

  • Nicholas Chamberlaine Almshouses, Bedworth,{{Cite web|url=http://nicholaschamberlainetrusts.org.uk/almshouses|title=Almshouses|publisher=Nicholas Chamberlaine Trusts|access-date=18 November 2016}} 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.{{NHLE |desc=THE ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH STREET |num=1298549|access-date=12 March 2022}} 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==

File:First Walmley Almshouses, Royal Sutton Coldfield.jpg

  • 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, Nechells1881 Census
  • 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==

File:Hough FordsHospital HAGAM.jpg

  • Bond's Hospital, built in 1506{{cite web |title=Bablake School & Bond's Hospital, Hill Street |url=https://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/tour/content.php?pg=bablake |publisher=Historic Coventry |accessdate=20 March 2020 |archive-date=17 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517140101/http://historiccoventry.co.uk/tour/content.php?pg=bablake |url-status=live }} and now Grade II* listed{{NHLE |desc=Bonds Hospital |num=1076615 |accessdate=20 March 2020}}
  • Ford's Hospital, traditionally known as Grey Friars Hospital; Grade I listed,{{Cite web|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-218487-ford-s-hospital-coventry|title=Ford's Hospital, Coventry|publisher=British Listed Buildings|access-date=2021-02-09|archive-date=2024-06-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240626113237/https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101342891-fords-hospital-st-michaels-ward|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Warner|first=Gary A.|title=Lady Godiva Put Coventry On The Map|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2001/01/28/lady-godiva-put-coventry-on-the-map/|access-date=31 March 2012|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=28 January 2001|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063905/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-01-28/travel/0101270484_1_coventry-peeping-tom-historians-doubt/2|url-status=live}} 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==

File:Akrill Almshouses, West Bromwich.jpg

  • 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==

File:Harper's Almshouses, Walsall.jpg

==Wolverhampton==

==Worcestershire==

=Wiltshire=

  • Hungerford Almshouses, Corsham, built in 1668 and now Grade I listed{{NHLE|num=1022101|desc=The Hungerford Almshouses|accessdate=18 July 2009}}
  • 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)
  • [https://www.collegeofmatrons.org.uk/ College of Matrons], Salisbury (founded 1682)
  • Topps Almshouses, Stockton (built 1657){{National Heritage List for England|num=1181683|desc=Almshouses, Stockton|access-date=29 March 2020|fewer-links=yes}}

=Yorkshire=

File:Part of the front of Beamsley Hospital, Beamsley - geograph.org.uk - 402221.jpg

File:Nettleton's Almshouses, Old School Lane, Almondbury - geograph.org.uk - 731312.jpg, designed by William Henry Crossland]]

File:Sir Joseph Terry Almshouses, York.jpg

==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==

  • Beamsley Hospital, Beamsley, founded in 1593. The north wing is Grade I listed{{NHLE|num=1131765|desc=BEAMSLEY HOSPITAL (NORTH RANGE)|access-date = 27 August 2014}} and the south wing is Grade II* listed.{{NHLE|num=1166620| desc=BEAMSLEY HOSPITAL (SOUTH RANGE)|fewer-links=yes|access-date = 27 August 2014}}
  • Fontaines Hospital, Linton
  • Lady Lumley's Almshouses, Lady Lumley's School, Thornton-le-Dale
  • St John's Almshouses, Ripon, which are Grade II listed{{National Heritage List for England| num=1149415 |date = 19 March 1984|desc=Hospital of St John the Baptist |access-date=13 January 2022}}
  • Sir William Turner's Almshouses, Kirkleatham, Redcar

==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.{{National Heritage List for England |num=1255159 |desc=EAST BLOCK AT HOLLIS HOSPITAL|fewer-links=yes}}{{National Heritage List for England |num=1058980 |desc=WEST BLOCK AT HOLLIS HOSPITAL|fewer-links=yes}}{{National Heritage List for England |num=1270722 |desc=NORTH WEST BLOCK AT HOLLIS HOSPITAL|fewer-links=yes}}{{National Heritage List for England |num=1344935 |desc=CENTRAL BLOCK AT HOLLIS HOSPITAL|fewer-links=yes}} The east block has an inscribed slate plaque dated 1703.
  • 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{{Cite web |title=Nettleton's Almshouses |url=https://housingcare.org/housing-care/facility-info-163665-nettletons-almshouses-almondbury-england |access-date=7 February 2021 |website=EAC Housing Care |archive-date=14 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214010432/https://housingcare.org/housing-care/facility-info-163665-nettletons-almshouses-almondbury-england |url-status=live }} (1861–63), designed by William Henry Crossland{{cite web |last=Law |first=Edward |title=William Crossland Architect, 1835–1908 Part 4 |url=http://homepage.eircom.net/~lawedd/WHCBLDG1856-63.htm |date=15 September 2001 |access-date=7 February 2021 |website=Huddersfield & District History |archive-date=26 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126140822/http://homepage.eircom.net/~lawedd/WHCBLDG1856-63.htm |url-status=live }}
  • Saltaire Almshouses, Saltaire
  • Ledsham Almshouses, Ledsham{{cite news | url=http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/what-s-on/walking-rural-delights-on-the-edge-of-bustling-leeds-1-6140178 | title=Walking: Rural delights on the edge of bustling Leeds | work=Yorkshire Evening Post | date=13 October 2013 | access-date=18 June 2014 | archive-date=20 October 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020130110/http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/what-s-on/walking-rural-delights-on-the-edge-of-bustling-leeds-1-6140178 | url-status=live }}
  • Harrison's Almshouses, Sandal, Wakefield

==York==

  • Ingram's Hospital, which was built in 1630–1640 and is now Grade II* listed{{NHLE |num=1259395 |date = 14 June 1954||desc=Ingram House |access-date=13 January 2022}}
  • Terry Memorial Homes, Skeldergate, which were built in 1898 and are now Grade II listed.{{NHLE |num=1256605 |date=14 March 1997 |access-date=3 February 2022}}

Scotland

Wales

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  • Bangor Cathedral Almshouses, Bangor, Gwynedd
  • Burton Almshouses, Newport
  • Monmouth Alms Houses, Monmouth
  • Powis Almshouses, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, which are Grade II* listed.{{NHAW|num=2524|desc=Powis Almshouses, Chepstow|grade=II*|access-date=18 April 2022}}
  • Queen Victoria Almshouses, Newport{{Cite web |title=Almshouses in Wales |url=http://almshouses.co.uk/category/almshouses-in-wales/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130829121843/http://almshouses.co.uk/category/almshouses-in-wales/ |archive-date=2013-08-29}}

Northern Ireland

File:The restored Seaforde Almshouses (geograph 2502194).jpg Almshouses, County Down]]

  • Annahilt Almshouses, Annahilt, County Down
  • Armagh Sheils Buildings, Armagh{{Cite web|url=https://sheilscharity.ie/armagh/|title=Sheils Armagh|website= Charles Sheils Charity|access-date= 1 October 2024}}
  • Gill's Almshouses, Carrickfergus, County Antrim{{Cite web |title=An ancient key to longevity |url=https://scopeni.nicva.org/article/an-ancient-key-to-longevity |access-date= 1 October 2024|website=Scope NI|author= Garbutt, Nick|date= 25 May 2023}}
  • Killough Sheils Buildings, Killough, County Down{{Cite web|url=https://sheilscharity.ie/killough/|title=Killough Sheils Buildings|website= Charles Sheils Charity|access-date= 1 October 2024}}
  • Seaforde Almshouses, Newcastle Road, Seaforde, County Down{{Cite web |date= |title=Seaforde |url=http://freespace.virgin.net/hearth.nireland/Seaforde.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303195938/http://freespace.virgin.net/hearth.nireland/Seaforde.html |archive-date=2016-03-03 |access-date= |website=}}
  • Sheils Almshouses, Carrickfergus{{Cite web|url=https://sheilscharity.ie/carrickfergus/|title=Carrickfergus Sheils Buildings|website= Charles Sheils Charity|access-date= 1 October 2024}}{{Cite news |url=http://www.downnews.co.uk/charles-sheils-life-and-legacy-of-killough-philanthropist-remembered/ |title=Charles Sheils: Life And Legacy Of Killough Philanthropist Remembered |last=Masson |first=Jim |work=Down News |location=Downpatrick |publication-date=26 April 2015 |access-date=2 October 2017 |archive-date=3 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003030534/http://www.downnews.co.uk/charles-sheils-life-and-legacy-of-killough-philanthropist-remembered/ |url-status=live }}

References

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External links

  • [https://www.almshouses.org/ The Almshouse Association], representing independent almshouse charities throughout the United Kingdom
  • [http://www.historyfish.net/monastics/List_houses_A-B.html List of English Almshouses associated with monastic institutions] (from public domain text, English Monastic Life)
  • [http://www.historyfish.net/clay/clay_hospitals.html 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")

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