1-5 Cookes Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1950. Almshouse.
1-5 Cookes Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- tall-keystone-myrtle
- 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
- 1-5 Cookes Almshouses, High Street, Bewdley, DY12 2DJ
- OS grid reference
- SO 787 750
- Coordinates
- 52.37352, -2.31382
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cooke's Almshouses, located on the south side of High Street in Bewdley, consist of eight almshouses founded in 1693. They were restored in 1860 and have undergone some alterations in the mid-20th century. The building features a combination of rendered sandstone and brick with a tiled roof, and it has two clusters of four square chimney stacks at the rear.
The structure is two storeys high and includes a moulded cornice and a string course at the ground floor, along with a 19th-century brick plinth. There are four windows, which are three-light casements. A centrally placed stone tablet with a long inscription about the founder, Thomas Cooke, is adorned with a segmental pediment and an eared architrave with consoles. At the rear, there is a lean-to that runs the length of the wall, which contains the entrance.
Local climate
1-5 Cookes 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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