Burrough's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Blaby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1977. Almshouses.
Burrough's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- ancient-stronghold-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blaby
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1977
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Burrough's Almshouses, Cook's Lane, Sapcote
- OS grid reference
- SP 489 931
- Coordinates
- 52.5343, -1.28002
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burrough's Almshouses are a group of four almshouses built in 1847, with additions and alterations made around 1970. They were constructed at the expense of Thomas Frewen and are designed in the Tudor Revival style. The buildings are made of random granite rubble and brick, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Key architectural features include a chamfered plinth, a moulded coped parapet, coped gables with kneelers and finials, shouldered coped gabled dormers, and four coped brick ridge stacks.
The almshouses are two storeys high and consist of five bays. The symmetrical front has a projecting gabled central bay flanked by lower wings. The central bay features a triple plain lancet window, with a recessed panel above inscribed 'The Rev. Stanley Burrough's Almshouses erected by Thomas Frewen esq of Brickwall, Sussex AD 1847'. Above this is a double lancet window, and further up, a panel containing a shield. On either side of the central bay are chamfered four-centred arched doorways, each flanked by single two-light mullioned casements. The doorways have weather-stripped plank doors.
To the rear, there is a full-width 20th-century lean-to addition that includes four doors and seven casements. The roof features dormers, with two on either side, each containing a two-light mullioned casement. Additionally, there is a single-storey 20th-century brick addition beyond the main structure.
Local climate
Burrough's Almshouses receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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