Websters Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. Almshouses. 1 related planning application.
Websters Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- weathered-rampart-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Websters Almshouses, 32, 34, 36 and 38, Swan Street, Sible, Sible Hedingham, CO9 3RE
- OS grid reference
- TL 783 336
- Coordinates
- 51.97255, 0.59485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Websters Almshouses are a group of six almshouses built around 1884 in the style of the 17th century. They are arranged in three ranges and feature a timber frame with parget plaster and some batten decoration. The roofs are covered with red plain tiles. Each of the left, central, and right ranges has a red brick chimney stack with square bases and four octagonal shafts. The buildings are one storey high with attics in the centre and right ranges, while the left range has a jettied gambrel crosswing and is two storeys tall. The centre range is set back from the others.
The windows are arranged in a 1:3:2 pattern, featuring three or four light leaded casements. The ground floor of the centre range has hipped red tiled six-light oriel windows supported by carved brackets. Gabled dormers are present on both the centre and right ranges. There are red tiled porches on the inner returns of the right and left ranges, each with two vertically boarded doors that have ornate hinges. The two central doors, which are covered by a pentice board, are accessed by steps with flat carved wooden balusters. Above these doors is a small decorative gable with a floral pargetted apex and an inscribed panel that reads, "To The Glory of God and the dear memory of Maria Webster these almshouses were dedicated and declare free forever. June 2nd 1884."
Local climate
Websters 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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