Crewe's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1948. Almshouses. 1 related planning application.
Crewe's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- lost-outpost-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich MP: Connor Naismith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1948
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Crewe's Almshouses, Beam Street, Nantwich
- OS grid reference
- SJ 654 525
- Coordinates
- 53.06919, -2.51662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crewe’s Almshouses, dated 1767, is a row of seven houses built of red brick with two storeys. The central projection features a pediment with a circular panel, a stone cornice with small plain consoles, and a hipped slate roof. There are twelve sash windows, each with stone lintels, keyblocks, and sills. Six simple doorways are set within plain stone surrounds. A central, six-panelled door has an arched fanlight and keyblock, and is framed by a stone surround featuring three-quarter columns, side windows, pilasters, an entablature, and a pediment above. A central stone tablet bears a carved inscription, with the date positioned above it. The almshouses were restored in 1975-76.
Local climate
Crewe's Almshouses receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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