NHER 62837 (Building) - Sugars' Almshouses, 83-93 (odd) Goodwin's Road

(S1) describes these as being of 1883, financed by John Sugars (builder, Borough Councillor and ship owner). Red brick dressed with blue, including interesting polychrome brick pattern in central entrance gable. Nos 83 and 93 are also gabled to the road; intermediate houses have projecting gabled bay windows, largely of timber. Slate roof overall with terracotta ridge detail; slender nicely detailed chimney stacks set cross-wise to ridge with little timber spire in the middle. Foundation stone on side wall of No. 93 gives full details of benefactor, trustees, architect and builder. These almshouses were designed by W Allen Dixon (London) architect and built by WH Brown, a well known local stonemason. According to (S2) in 1883 John Sugars provided land and funds for erecting these almshouses and this building was to be a substitution for five tenements called White House Cottages which Sugars had built in 1881 in charitable lets. (S3) records that Sugars died in 1885 and the almshouses were actually built in 1887.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 18 June 2019.