The impressive Exeter Homes Trust is one of the largest Almshouse charities in the country. The Charity owns and manages 143 almshouses in 8 locations throughout the city of Exeter. They range from the Victorian period into Edwardian and on to the present day.
Liberty Dole Cottages, 19th century
Atwill Palmer, 19th century
Grendon Road, 19th century
North Park, 20th century
Fair Park, 20th century
Livery Dole Flats (1980s)
Culverland Road (contemporary)
Starting from the Cathedral it is a short walk to
Magdalen Street to see Wynard's Almshouses. They date from 1453, but seem to have been rebuilt in
1863 (Pevsner). They make a handsome group. A more detailed account can be found in the Exeter Memories website.
Catherine Street is the the area which suffered the most bomb damage in the second world war. On the right are the ruins of St Catherine's Almshouses (1458) together with St Catherine's Chapel and Canon's house.
In Mount Dinham, also near the centre, are the Mount Dinham Cottages. In 2012 the Mount Dinham Cottage Trust signed a 125 year lease to secure the continuity of the Almshouses which were renovated in 2015.
Flaye's Almshouses which can be found on Pinhoe Road in the North East of the City are managed by the Exeter Homes Trust. There are twelve properties: 8 one bedroom flats, generally occupied by single people, and 4 two-bedroom houses.
In the Pennsylvania area on the west side of the city are the lively Licenced Victuallers' Almshouses built in 1872 by A H Wills.
In St. Sidwell’s on the fork between Old Tiverton Road and Blackboy Road
is a medieval Chapel and adjacent Almshouses (photo below) beside the
St. Anne’s Orthodox Church. Pevsner says that the 16th century Almshouses were restored in 1838; two Tudor style houses were added later by W D Caroe.
