The Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Telford and Wrekin local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1983. Almshouses. 6 related planning applications.
The Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-chalk-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Constituency
- The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1983
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- The Almshouses, 1-7, Shrewsbury Road, Ercall Magna, TF6 6AD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 595 175
- Coordinates
- 52.75414, -2.60107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Almshouses, dated 1694, are a range of red brick almshouses located in High Ercall. The building is U-shaped in plan, featuring projecting gabled wings at either end, which have brick parapets. It has a new tile roof and consists of one storey with an attic. The façade is arranged in a 1:4:1 bay pattern, with two and three-light wood mullion and transom casements. The original studded doors are set in heavy doorcases. A central stone doorway is topped with a large stone tablet that bears the inscription and date of 1694. There are brick drip moulds over the attic windows in the gables, five new attic dormers, and brick stacks located at the rear and sides.
Local climate
The Almshouses receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- 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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