Melbourne Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Almshouses. 5 related planning applications.
Melbourne Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- heavy-bailey-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1983
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Melbourne Almshouses, 20-34, Sawrey Place Bd5, Trident, BD5 0DA
- OS grid reference
- SE 158 325
- Coordinates
- 53.78919, -1.76023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Melbourne Almshouses, dated 1845, are a group of almshouses built in a Jacobean style. They are constructed of thin sandstone “bricks” and are single-storey in height. The building features two slight gabled breaks containing doorways for numbers 22 and 32, and a larger gabled break in the centre. Weathered saddlestones rise from shaped kneelers above the gables, and the roof is covered with fish scale slates. Corniced chimneys are present. The windows are wood casements set in chamfered ashlar reveals. The doorways have large, roll-moulded labels resting on stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The central archway is dressed with long and short quoins. A crest is positioned in the gable above the central archway, along with a name plaque bearing the date.
Local climate
Melbourne 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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