Sayers Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1950. Almshouse. 4 related planning applications.
Sayers Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- sheer-copper-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 1950
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Sayers Almshouses, 8-13, Lower Park, Bewdley, DY12 2DP
- OS grid reference
- SO 788 750
- Coordinates
- 52.37297, -2.31259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sayers Almshouses are a group of six almshouses located on the north side of Lower Park in Bewdley. They were founded in 1625, rebuilt in 1897, and restored in the early 1980s. The buildings are constructed of brick with stone dressings and feature a machine tile roof with stacks along the ridge.
The almshouses are two storeys high and have a moulded stone cornice beneath a stone-coped parapet, which includes a central inscribed stone tablet detailing the history of the foundation. The structure features a symmetrical arrangement of windows, with four on each side of the central section that is slightly advanced. Each window is a two-light design with a four-centred arch above each light and a square label.
On the ground floor, there are two sets of paired windows, with entrances located at the left and right-hand corners, and additional entrances between each pair of windows, making a total of six entrances. Each entrance has a stone surround with a four-centred arch and label, blind fanlights, and 20th-century ledged and boarded doors.
Local climate
Sayers Almshouses receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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