Stow Lodge is a listed building in the parish of Onehouse in Stowmarket, Suffolk. Constructed in 1781 as Union Work House, a House of Industry for the 14 parishes of the Stow Hundred, it was subsequently used as a hospital and is now residential flats.
The establishment of Houses of Industry, commonly known as workhouses, was enabled by the Workhouse Test Act of 1723 to offer indoor relief to the poor. Stow Incorporation was established by the Stow, Suffolk: Poor Relief Act 1778 c. 35 and was formed of the parishes of Buxhall, Combs, Creeting St. Peter, Great Finborough, Little Finborough, Harleston, Haughley, Old Newton, Onehouse, Shelland, Stow Upland, Stowmarket, and Wetherden.
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