Description

TM 26 SE FRAMLINGHAM STATION ROAD

4/122 Thomas Mills Almshouses
25.10.51

GV II*

A row of 8 almshouses, built under the will of Thomas Mills of Framlingham
(d.1703), and completed by 1705. 2 storeys. Red brick with band; dark
headers; plaintiles, and a heavy modillion cornice. 4 internal chimney-stacks
with large plain red brick shafts. 20 windows, arranged in groups of 5, each
group having a single-light window with transom flanked by 2 cross windows on
each side. All the lights have square leaded panes. 8 recessed doors, with
applied bolection mouldings forming 2 panels, and simple moulded architraves:
a door set below the 2nd and 4th windows in each group of 5. Flat gauged
arches above the ground-storey windows and the doors. Thomas Mills, a
wheelwright and timber-merchant of Framlingham, and the leader of the Baptist
congregation there, bequeathed money for 6 almshouses; the money for the
remaining 2 was given by his lifelong friend, William Mayhew (a,1713).

Listing NGR: TM2833763312

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546380

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