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Sir John Robinson’s Almshouses

Sir John Robinson's Almshouses
Daybrook Alms Houses - geograph.org.uk - 857094.jpg
The entrance gate to the almshouses in 2008
Location Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
Coordinates 52°59′58.4″N 1°8′16.7″W / 52.999556°N 1.137972°W / 52.999556; -1.137972Coordinates: 52°59′58.4″N 1°8′16.7″W / 52.999556°N 1.137972°W / 52.999556; -1.137972
Built 1899
Built for Sir John Robinson
Architect William Herbert Higginbottom
Listed Building – Grade II
Sir John Robinson’s Almshouses is located in Nottinghamshire
Sir John Robinson’s Almshouses
Location of Sir John Robinson's Almshouses in Nottinghamshire

The Sir John Robinson Almshouses (commonly the Daybrook Almshouses are a collection of twelve two-bedroom cottages erected in 1899 on Mansfield Road, Daybrook, Arnold, Nottingham.

The almshouses are charitable low-rent housing provided and maintained by the Sir John Robinson Homes charity (England and Wales Registered Charity No. 217941) to enable fully retired elderly people over the age of 60 years (who are able to care for themselves) to live in Daybrook.

Sir John Robinson of the Home Brewery built the almshouses and Daybrook Laundry in memory of his son John Sandford Robinson, an amateur jockey, who died in a horse-racing accident on 21 April 1898, aged 30 years.

King George V visited the almshouses on 24 June 1914.


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