Temeside House is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Union workhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Temeside House
- WRENN ID
- plain-entrance-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Union workhouse
- Address
- Temeside House, Teme Street, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8AA
- OS grid reference
- SO 595 685
- Coordinates
- 52.31346, -2.59428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Temeside House is a building originally constructed as a union workhouse in 1837, later serving as the offices for the Tenbury Rural District Council, and now functioning as a police and fire station as well as local authority offices. The building was altered in 1937 and is made of brick with ashlar dressings, topped with a slate roof. It features gable-end parapets with kneelers and shaped finials at the front, along with brick ridge stacks and two diagonally set brick stacks at the rear. The structure is part two storeys, part single storey, and includes an attic with dormers.
The main west elevation is arranged in a pattern of a:b:c:b:a. The outer bays contain two ground floor two-light casements and two gabled dormers, each with two-light casements. The left end dormers are adorned with scalloped bargeboards. The two right end bays have had their ground floor windows replaced by a large 20th-century doorway for fire engine access, along with a small single storey wing added. The adjacent inner bays feature full-height projecting gabled wings with three-light first floor casements, blind loopholes in the apex of each gable, and doorways with Tudor-arched heads and studded 20th-century doors. Two-light ground floor windows are located in the angles. The central bay is also gabled and has a three-light casement on both main floors, with the first floor window flanked by single-light casements.
Above the ground floor window, there is a plaque that reads "TENBURY RURAL/ DISTRICT COUNCIL/ REMODELLED 1937." The gable above features a datestone set within a square ashlar border, inscribed "UNION/ WORKHOUSE/ ERECTED/ 1837." The rear elevation appears to be largely unaltered.
Local climate
Temeside House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 — 5 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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