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Winter Box Walk, RICHMOND, TW10 6EQ

Looking at junction of Sheen Road

This is the back of the buildings, seen from St Mary's Grove. The front faces Sheen Road. They are listed grade 2 (listed building no. 435926 or Heritage asset number 1252805 from 2011). According to a local history website http://www.richmond.gov.uk/local_history_almshouses.pdf, "The Church Estate charity is the oldest charity in Richmond, having been founded in the reign of Mary I by Thomas Denys. Denys gave properties to the Church for repairing the church and other charitable deeds in 1558. There was a dispute over the property which was possibly settled in 1650 when a trust was formed to provide for the poor of Richmond ... By 1844, the Trustees of the Church Estate ... built 10 almshouses for men and women on a site adjacent to Hickey’s Almshouses in Sheen Road."

Image was taken through the stepped arch that links the twin lodges of the gatehouse on Sheen Road, given a castellated appearance with their polygonal buttresses and parapet http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=435927&mode=adv .

Grade II listed almshouses built in 1843 to a design by architect William Crawford Stow, one of the founders of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Description at this https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252805.

More functional in appearance than Hickey's Almshouses http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2316286 next door, less architecturally ambitious - but certainly more colourful, built of bricks in three colours:http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2316683. The British Listed Buildings website gives the architect's name as William Crawford Stow, and the date as 1843: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-435926-richmond-church-estate-almshouses-richmo. A slate slab at first-floor level is inscribed with the names of the trustees at the time of building. They include 'The Earl of Shaftesbury'.