Willoughby Almshouses and adjoining boundary wall is a Grade II* listed building in the Broxtowe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1952. A C17 Almshouses. 6 related planning applications.
Willoughby Almshouses and adjoining boundary wall
- WRENN ID
- moated-render-thunder
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Broxtowe
- Constituency
- Broxtowe MP: Juliet Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1952
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Willoughby Almshouses and adjoining boundary wall, NG16 2RT
- OS grid reference
- SK 483 423
- Coordinates
- 52.97597, -1.28187
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willoughby Almshouses, built in 1685 for George Willoughby, is a group of eight almshouses made of brick with plain tile roofs and ashlar dressings. The building features chamfered plinths, moulded coped gables, and parapets, along with three grouped ridge stacks and a single gable stack. The doors have chamfered ashlar surrounds, while the windows are fitted with chamfered mullions, cast iron leaded casements, and flat drip moulds.
The south front showcases a higher central bay with a blocked central doorway, flanked on the left by a casement and on the right by two doorways. Further along, there is another casement, followed by two doors and two more casements. Continuing to the right, there are single doors, a door, and a casement. Above this arrangement is a central sundial, with a triple casement above it and a smaller casement to its right. There are three shouldered coped gabled dormers on the left and four on the right, each containing a casement. The east gable features a diamond casement above.
The adjoining front courtyard wall has ribbed half-round coping and two gateways with square piers. The outer lower boundary wall includes a central gateway with square piers, all of which are topped with ball finials.
Local climate
Willoughby Almshouses and adjoining boundary wall 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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