Spalden's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1951. Almshouse. 1 related planning application.
Spalden's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-chapel-mallow
- 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
- Spalden's Almshouses, School Lane, Ashbourne, DE6 1AN
- OS grid reference
- SK 176 464
- Coordinates
- 53.01481, -1.73774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spalden's Almshouses were founded in 1710 and built shortly afterwards. The structure is made of red brick with stone dressings and has been partially restored. It features plain stone eaves and a hipped roof covered with old tiles. The building is two storeys high and is arranged around three sides of a courtyard. It has plain, two-light mullioned windows that include early 19th-century glazing bars throughout. The doors are ledged and set in stone-faced surrounds with pseudo-quoin detailing and a plinth. A moulded cornice runs along the first floor and forms a hood, with mutules positioned above the doors. There is a modern one-storey brick addition at the centre of the rear elevation. The listed buildings in School Lane form a group with No. 69 Church Street and the School Lane section of the churchyard walls belonging to the parish church of St Oswald.
Local climate
Spalden's 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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