1-8 Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1983. Almshouses. 3 related planning applications.
1-8 Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- lone-stone-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1983
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- 1-8 Almshouses, Church Street, Buckden
- OS grid reference
- TL 194 676
- Coordinates
- 52.29431, -0.2502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building consists of almshouses, dated 1840, with the inscription 'Industry Rewarded Age Protected'. They are constructed from yellow gault brick and feature a low-pitched hipped slate roof with two ridge stacks. The structure is two storeys high and has a symmetrical plan of six bays, with two projecting, two-storey porches, each topped with gabled roofs and bargeboards.
On the first floor, there are four three-light casement windows with lattice lights and stone drip moulds. The ground floor has four similar, but larger, windows. Each porch contains two two-light fixed windows with lattice lights and drip moulds, along with entrances that feature double oak doors shaped to two-centred brick arches with drip moulds.
Local climate
1-8 Almshouses sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 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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