Rand's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Almshouse.

Rand's Almshouses

WRENN ID
ruined-portal-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1983
Type
Almshouse
Address
Rand's Almshouses, 1-8, Whetley Grove Bd8
OS grid reference
SE 145 340
Coordinates
53.80279, -1.78113
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rand's Almshouses, built in 1876, is a single-storey range of almshouses featuring two-storey wings. The building showcases Gothic and Jacobean detailing, constructed from sandstone "brick" with ashlar dressings. The ground floor of the wings has splayed corners adorned with shield panels, and there is moulded corbelling at the first floors topped with coped finialed gables. The ground floor windows are lobed pointed twin lights, while the first floor windows are set beneath blind pointed arches on carved stops. The single-storey range includes mullioned windows, and there are coupled porches at the center featuring an applied pointed arch. Above the porches is a stepped, finialed gable that contains an inscription and the date of construction.

Local climate

Rand's Almshouses sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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