single storey plus attics under a tiled roof, with two slightly projecting gabled end wings. The gables have sham timber framing and slender finials. There are similar finials to the ends of the roof and two prominent clustered chimney stacks. Each block has three unornamented doorways with arched heads. Above the central doorway is a cast-iron plaque bearing the coat of arms of the Tollemache family and the date 1870. The ground floor has four casement windows, one of two lights and three of three lights; there are four two-light casements to the attic floor, two of which are gabled dormers. All the windows are latticed in iron with a diamond pattern and have arched heads. Modern usage The Tollemache Almshouses remain in residential use. They are run as a housing association, administered jointly with the Wright's, Crewe and Harriet Hope Almshouses by the Almshouse Charities of Sir Edmund Wright, Crewe and Others. See also Listed buildings in Nantwich List of almshouses in the United Kingdom Tollemache Almshouses, Ham, London, erected in memory of Algernon Gray Tollemache in 1892 by his widow Notes Sources Residential buildings completed in 1870 Grade II listed buildings in Cheshire Grade II listed almshouses Almshouses, Tollemache Almshouses in Nantwich