Moores Almhouses is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. Almshouse.
Moores Almhouses
- WRENN ID
- sheer-mortar-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- Hinckley and Bosworth MP: Dr Luke Evans (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Moores Almhouses, 32-40, Mawbys Lane, Appleby Magna
- OS grid reference
- SK 315 099
- Coordinates
- 52.68601, -1.53485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moore's Almshouses is a range of five almshouses built in 1839, designed in the Tudor style. The building is one and a half storeys high, constructed of brick with a stone plinth, quoins, and dressings, topped with a plain tiled roof. It features shouldered stone coped gables and has four large brick ridge stacks with stone dressings; the two central stacks have four diagonal flues arranged in an X shape, while the outer stacks are aligned axially. The original chimney pots remain intact.
The front elevation has a single range of five windows, with a projecting central two-storey gable that includes one-storey outshuts at the angles. There are four dormer gables with shaped kneelers. The stone mullion windows vary from one to four lights, and the windows with three and four lights, as well as the doorways, are topped with hood-moulds. The doorways feature Tudor arches and ledged doors. Both end walls have a central doorway with two-light mullion windows above. The rear of the building has six gables, each with two-light mullions above and doors and one-light windows below. A tablet inscribed with 'A.D. 1839' is located above the central front ground floor window.
Local climate
Moores Almhouses receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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