Forecourt Wall and Gateway of Wright's Almshouses is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1974. A Post-Medieval Almshouses.
Forecourt Wall and Gateway of Wright's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- white-nave-tarn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich MP: Connor Naismith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1974
- Type
- Almshouses
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Forecourt Wall and Gateway of Wright's Almshouses, London Road, Nantwich
- OS grid reference
- SJ 654 525
- Coordinates
- 53.06919, -2.51715
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The forecourt wall and gateway of Wright's Almshouses were built by the Trustees in 1667. The structure features a low wall made of red brick that runs along the pavement's edge, topped with a moulded stone coping. At the center, there is an impressive gateway consisting of a stone screen with a segmental arch, flanked by columns on pedestals, an entablature, moulded Jacobean coping, and large side scrolls, one of which has been restored. The structure was noted to be in urgent need of repair at the time of inspection and is included in a proposal for the dismantling of the almshouses and their re-erection by Crewe's Almshouses in Beam Street.
Local climate
Forecourt Wall and Gateway of Wright'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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