Number 10 Newton's College is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. Almshouse.
Number 10 Newton's College
- WRENN ID
- third-vault-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1952
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Number 10 Newton's College, the Close
- OS grid reference
- SK 114 096
- Coordinates
- 52.68461, -1.83239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 10 Newton's College is an almshouse built between 1800 and 1805 by Joseph Potter Snr of Lichfield for Andrew Newton. The building is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features a front-facing graduated slate roof with ashlar stacks. It has a double-depth plan and is designed in a classical style, standing three storeys high with a two-window range facing Bird Street.
The exterior includes a plain plinth, a platt band above the ground floor, and a top frieze and cornice, along with end pilaster strips. The windows are fitted with sills and 12-pane sashes, with those on the first floor set in round-headed recesses. The left return features a recessed left half with a brick arcade on the ground floor, topped with a brick lozenge parapet, a second-floor sill band, and a cornice. The plain entrance is accompanied by windows on the left half that have rubbed brick flat arches, while the left end of the right half has small-paned casements. The right return includes blind windows on the second floor. This building was established to provide accommodation for the widows and single daughters of clergymen.
Local climate
Number 10 Newton's College receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% 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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