Rogers' Almshouses

{{Short description|Almshouse in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England}}

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Rogers' Almshouses are a historic building in Harrogate, a town in North Yorkshire, in England.

The twelve almshouses were commissioned by George Rogers and built on a site now known as Rogers' Square. They were designed by William Andrews and Joseph Pepper and were completed in 1868.{{cite book |last1=Neesam |first1=Malcolm |title=Harrogate in 50 Buildings |date=2018 |publisher=Amberley Publishing |isbn=9781445681122}} The almshouses were refurbished in 1992, by which time there were 14 retirement homes, and in 2018 the central garden was relandscaped.{{cite news |title=One of Harrogate's most architecturally-admired buildings has turned 150 years old |url=https://www.harrogateadvertiser.co.uk/news/one-of-harrogates-most-architecturally-admired-buildings-has-turned-150-years-old-567864 |access-date=2 December 2024 |work=Harrogate Advertiser |date=4 October 2018}} In 2021, the almshouses were configured to provided 15 properties.{{cite news |last1=Chalmers |first1=Graham |title=Rare moment as new almshouse opens in one of Harrogate's most beautiful and prized squares |url=https://www.harrogateadvertiser.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/rare-moment-as-new-almshouse-opens-in-one-of-harrogates-most-beautiful-and-prized-squares-3429556 |access-date=2 December 2024 |work=Harrogate Advertiser |date=22 October 2021}} They are available to residents of Harrogate or Bradford who are at least 60 years old.{{cite web |title=15 Almshouses located in the historic spa town of Harrogate, North Yorkshire |url=https://rogersalmshouses.org.uk/ |website=Rogers' Almshouses |access-date=2 December 2024}} The building was grade II listed in 1975.{{NHLE |desc=Roger's Almshouses |num=1149503 |access-date=2 December 2024}}

The almshouses are built of rusticated gritstone, with a string course, a bracketed eaves course, and slate roofs with coped gables. They have two storeys, in three ranges, around a courtyard. In the centre of the main range is a four-storey clock tower, with a two-light window in the ground floor in an arched recess with a carved tympanum, and a hood mould with an inscription. Above is a bust of the founder, loop windows, gabled clock faces and a pyramidal roof. The windows are paired casements, those in the lower floor with splayed reveals, and in the upper floor with trefoil heads and gables. The doorways are recessed, with fanlights, and bracketed hoods.{{Citation |last=Leach |first=Peter |title=Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North |year=2009 |series=The Buildings of England |place=New Haven and London |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-12665-5 |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |author-link2=Nikolaus Pevsner}}