3-003-857 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New Almshouses at Old Buckenham, near Attleborough, Norfolk, founded by Mr. Robert Cocks, 1861. 'Mr. Robert Cocks...at his own cost purchased the land and erected these buildings for the benefit of the poor deserving inhabitants...Each house consists of a living-room and bedroom...Each room has a fireplace fitted with Pierce's cottager's stove...Opening from the living-rooms are washhouses 8ft. square, with sink and a place for coals; also a separate closet for each house. The buildings are of red brick, with white brick and Bath stone dressings...with pointed gables and moulded stone coping and angular buttresses. In each gable is a shield and monogram (R.C.) in a quatrefoil...At the rear of the buildings, in the centre, forming the water supply, is a well of spring water and a rain-water tank; the whole of the rain water being collected from the various roofs and conducted by means of glazed earthenware pipes into the tank. The cost of the buildings, including the purchase of the ground, is about £2000, this sum being exclusive of the architect's fees and the endowment. The builders are Messrs. Loveday, of Old Buckenham, who have executed the work from the designs and under the superintendence of Mr. Thos, Dyke, architect, of London'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.