Bond's Hospital on Hill Street is a Tudor almshouse that most people visiting Coventry walk straight past because it sits behind a fairly plain entrance. Founded in 1506 by merchant Thomas Bond, it is a remarkably intact example of early 16th-century domestic architecture: a timber-framed courtyard of two storeys, with the original arrangement of small apartments around a central garden. Unlike Ford's Hospital, it emerged from the Blitz without significant damage.
The courtyard is accessible through a gate during opening hours and is free to enter. It continues to function as almshouse accommodation. The building is Grade I listed and remains one of the better arguments for what Coventry looked like before the bombs: densely timbered, domestic in scale, and carefully maintained over centuries. Together with Ford's Hospital and Spon Street, it offers a sense of the city's pre-war character that the official heritage trail doesn't always make obvious.