In 1828 the Bakers Company purchased a plot of land in what was then called St Thomas's Passage (later renamed Lyme Grove) in order to build 12 almshouses for the benefit of its poor elderly freemen and their wives.

The Bakers Almshouses opened later in the same year. The buildings were arranged around three sides of a quad. Each of the three sides contained a block of four almshouses. Each block had two central doors and one door at each end of the building.

In 1867 the residents received an annual stipend of £20.

The almshouses were demolished in 1931.

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