GOODNESTONE THE STREET TR 25 SE (east side) 3/108 The Gabriel Richards Almshouses (formerly listed 13.10.52 as Almshouses) GV II* Almshouses. Mid C17, extended C18. Red brick and plain tiled roof. The C18 wing of 2 storeys and hipped roof with stacks to rear left and to rear right. Two leaded 3 light wooden casements on each floor, with segmental heads on ground floor, and central segmentally headed boarded door. C17 range: entrance front of 2 storeys on plinth with plat band and moulded dogtooth eaves cornice. Two large stacks project at left and at right, each with 2 star-shaped moulded flues. Irregular fenestration of wooden casements with 2 light rendered brick mullioned window over door to centre left, the door with flat hood on brackets with side screens. More rendered mullioned windows, irregularly placed on rear elevation. Shaped gable to left, with giant pilasters to left and right, with full entablature in brick supporting broken segmental pediment with a pediment thrusting upwards through it, possibly copying the pattern at Broome Park (1635-8). The charity was endowed by Gabriel Richards in his will dated 1671, but the building was already standing. The charity was for 4 aged decayed gentlemen or gentlewomen, born in Kent, and with preference to his own relations. (See B.O.E. Kent II 1983, 335-6; see also Hasted, IX, 247; see also Gabriel Richard's monument in Church of the Holy Cross, Goodnestone.) Listing NGR: TR2541554411