Front of Carmelite House painted white and blue with a couple of cars parked outside.
Front of Carmelite House in 2017. Contributed to the Missing Pieces Project by Roger Bowdler. View the List entry.
Front of Carmelite House in 2017. Contributed to the Missing Pieces Project by Roger Bowdler. View the List entry.

2: Carmelite House, Almshouses and Chapel

Some of the Old Town’s finest buildings are those erected in the Georgian period on the Trinity House estate that covers all the land between Posterngate and Whitefriargate.

Carmelite House was built in 1826 as the Trinity Almshouses, and behind lies a chapel of 1839 that can be seen from Zebedee's Yard. Nearby is the Ferres Hospital, which provided more accommodation for retired seamen and their widows.

Moving east along Posterngate, the earliest surviving buildings stand on the corner of Trinity House Lane and Posterngate, and are grouped around a courtyard, although this is not obvious from the street.

Some parts are probably medieval, but what is visible are two sides of a range of almshouses built between 1753 and 1759.

Also of interest

Missing Pieces Project