Stanstead Abbotts: Sir Edward Baesh's almshouses

Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 1 Dec 2010

The almshouses on Roydon Road were endowed under the terms of the will of Sir Edward Baesh in 1653. The almshouses and their forecourt wall are Grade II* Listed. The English Heritage Listed Building website describes them as follows:- "Red brick in English-bond with a long steep old red tiled roof. A single storey row of 3 handed pairs of almshouses facing NW. Each pair has 2 plank doors together, in a heavy chamfered wooden frame, a 3-light ovolo-moulded casement window with ironcentral opening light for each house, a gable over the door with a single small 2-light ovolo-moulded window with leaded lattice glazing, and a shared central chimney with a pair of diagonally set shafts. Toothed corbel course below the eaves and low plastered plinth. Modern single-storey small additions at rear and each end. Red brick wall around elongated forecourt garden, taller at ends, reduced at front but with heavy sloped brick coping reinstated. Square gatepiers with stone caps and C20 wrought iron gate. A landmark at a bend in the road at the S end of the village." The Listed Buildings website also describes them as The Baish Almshouses.

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