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
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
Crewe Almshouses, Nantwich (built 1767) Dixons Almshouses, Listed buildings in Christleton Harriet Hope Almshouses, Crewe Almshouses, Nantwich Hospital of St Lawrence, Acton Lumley Place Almshouses, Chester (Grade II listed) Nine Houses, Chester, Park Street: only six remain Tollemache Almshouses, Nantwich (built 1870) Widows' Almshouses, Nantwich Wilbraham's Almshouses, Acton (built 1613) Wilbraham's Almshouses, Nantwich Wood and Garnett Almshouses, Nantwich Wood and Garnett Almshouses, Willaston Wright's Almshouses, Nantwich (built 1638)
Cornwall
Almshouses, St. Stephen in St Stephen-in-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 St Anne's Hospital, Appleby-in-Westmorland Sandes Hospital Cottages in Kendal, 1663.
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, Plymouth 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
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 Shaftesbury Municipal Almshouse Charity, Shaftesbury Almshouse of Saint John the Evangelist and John the Baptist, Sherborne Sir Anthony Ashley's Almshouses, Wimborne St Giles Stretche's Almshouses, Wareham
Durham
Durham Aged Mineworkers Homes Association in Chester-le-Street 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 Parmiter's Almshouse & Pension Charity, Clacton-on-Sea 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 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. St John's Almshouses, Winchester Earl of Southampton Trust almshouses, Titchfield
Herefordshire Coningsby Hospital, Hereford Duppa's Almshouses, Pembridge, which are Grade II listed 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
Baish Almshouses, Stanstead Abbots Buntingford Almshouses, Buntingford Harrison Almshouses, Ware Monson Almshouses, Broxbourne St Mary's Almshouses, Ware Church Estate or Church Almshouses, Northchurch 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
Charles Amherst Almshouses, Royal Tunbridge Wells Cutbush & Corrall Charity, Maidstone and Harrietsham Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr, Canterbury, which is Grade I listed Faversham Almshouses, which are Grade II-listed and are operated by the trustees of Faversham Municipal Charities 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. 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, Wye, Kent
Lancashire
Bank Top Almshouses, Blackburn Hartley Homes in Laneshawbridge, Colne John Brabin's Almshouses, Chipping Lathom House Almshouses, Lathom Nancy Derbyshire Almshouses, Blackburn Stydd Almshouses, Ribchester The Penny Almshouses, Lancaster Terrace Row, Billington
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