Stafford Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Harlow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1950. Almshouse. 1 related planning application.
Stafford Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- sharp-gateway-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harlow
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1950
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Stafford Almshouses, Churchgate Street, CM17 0JT
- OS grid reference
- TL 483 114
- Coordinates
- 51.78219, 0.14872
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stafford Almshouses, dating from around 1600, are a two-storey house built in a U-plan. The building features exposed timber framing on the street side, while the rear elevation is covered with black weatherboards. Notable architectural details include curved wind-braces on the first storey and four leaded casement windows arranged in a 2 over 2 pattern. The roofs are gabled and covered with peg tiles, and the front eaves once had brackets, which are still in place. Above the central front door, there is a plaque with an inscription and the date 1630.
Local climate
Stafford Almshouses sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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