The best guide to the architecture of Beverley is still Nikolaus Pevsner. His original Yorkshire: York and the East Riding was published in 1972, but this was revised and expanded in 1995. It may be rather dry and terse, but the  "perambulations" enable the visitor to appreciate the great concentration of excellent medieval, Georgian and Victorian buildings in this relatively small and unspoilt town. These are Ann Routh's almshouses (c1749) built for the "maintenance of 12 poor old women".