The Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1949. Almshouses.
The Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- floating-railing-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1949
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- The Almshouses, Church Street, Bridgnorth
- OS grid reference
- SO 716 932
- Coordinates
- 52.53667, -2.41995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Almshouses, built in 1792, are a Grade II listed building located on the north side of Church Street in Bridgnorth. This structure is made of red brick and stands two storeys high. The central block features a dentilled brick pediment and an inset inscribed quatrefoil panel. It has three Gothic casement windows and a doorcase topped with a similar head and a moulded sandstone canopy supported by consoles. The side wings each contain two windows of the same style. The right-hand part of the building has been rebuilt following damage from the war.
Local climate
The Almshouses receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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