Clergyman's Widows Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1951. Almshouse.
Clergyman's Widows Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- fossil-barrel-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1951
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Clergyman's Widows Almshouses, 16, 18, 20, 20a and 22, Church Street, Ashbourne, DE6 1AE
- OS grid reference
- SK 179 466
- Coordinates
- 53.01656, -1.73431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clergyman's Widows Almshouses, built in the mid-18th century, feature a facade with a rainwater head dated 1768. The almshouses are arranged around three sides of a courtyard that opens to the street. They are constructed of red brick with stone dressings, and have a corbelled stone cornice and a parapet. The roof is not visible. The building has three storeys and is adorned with sash windows that have glazing bars set within moulded stone architraves. There are three moulded stone doorcases, each topped with moulded pediments supported by consoles. The almshouses are part of a group that includes Nos 12 to 28 (even).
Local climate
Clergyman's Widows Almshouses receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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