Maison Dieu Bedehouses is a Grade II* listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1950. A C17 Almshouses.
Maison Dieu Bedehouses
- WRENN ID
- tangled-mantel-plover
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Maison Dieu Bedehouses, Burton Street, LE13 1AJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 753 190
- Coordinates
- 52.76355, -0.88515
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Maison Dieu Bedehouses is a grade II* listed building, constructed in 1640 and restored in 1890. These almshouses were a gift from Robert Hudson, a citizen and haberdasher of London, who was originally from Melton Mowbray. The building is made of coursed stone with a plinth and dressings, topped by a steeply pitched stone slate roof featuring three gables above the windows and central door.
The centre gable displays the Hudson Coat of Arms in stone, flanked by two small Ionic pilasters, a small cornice, and an inscription. The lintel of the central door is inscribed with "Maison Dieu 1640." The structure has two storeys, with a four-light window on the ground floor and a three-light window on the upper floor under each side gable. The central gable features a door with a moulded depressed stone arch, flanked by two-light windows, and a five-light window in the upper storey. All the windows are of 17th-century style (restored) with stone mullions and dripstones.
The listed buildings on Burton Street, including Nos 24 to 36 (even), form a group of local interest.
Local climate
Maison Dieu Bedehouses sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% 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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