Listed Building: PAINE'S ALMSHOUSES (1039816)

Earlier C17. Two 2 storey wings stand gable end to road with garden between and linked at road end by a wall in the centre of which is a doorway with 4- centred arched head in moulded inset. Above this the moulded coping of the wall is stepped up above the doorway and carries 3 obelisk finials, the central 1 on a 3/4 segment. All walls are rubble and the roofs stone slate. Both the road end gables have a small square finial with crenellated top. Both these gable ends have a 2 storey bay with 5-li ht mullioned windows, east 1 hipped slate top, west 1 embattled parapet. Elsewhere the windows are random spaced, some stone mullioned some simple early metal casements with leaded lights. On the west wall of the west wing is a datestone D.G. 1753. Nos 15 to 19 (odd) 25 and 33 to 53 (odd) form a group with Church of St Wilfred, Paine's Almhouses and Oundle Congregational Church.

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Jul 13 2023 4:06PM