Gell's Bedehouses is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1950. Almshouse. 5 related planning applications.
Gell's Bedehouses
- WRENN ID
- third-pedestal-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Gell's Bedehouses, Church Yard, Wirksworth, DE4 4DP
- OS grid reference
- SK 287 539
- Coordinates
- 53.08187, -1.57162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gell's Bedehouses, built in 1839, were founded by Anthony Gell in 1584 and constructed shortly thereafter. The building is made of stone and has two storeys. It features four three-light mullioned windows with early 19th-century casements, and three ledged doors set in chamfered reveals. There is a small inscribed panel, and the building has stone gabled ends and old stone tiles. A bronze plate is present to record restorations that took place in 1963.
Local climate
Gell's Bedehouses receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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