Pilgrims Close is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. A C18/C19 Almshouse.
Pilgrims Close
- WRENN ID
- far-copper-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1984
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Pilgrims Close, 1-4, High Street, Westmill, SG9 9LG
- OS grid reference
- TL 368 271
- Coordinates
- 51.92569, -0.01124
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pilgrims Close consists of four almshouses built in the 18th and 19th centuries, restored in 1929 for the Greg family in memory of T T Greg of Coles. The buildings feature a timber frame with roughcast and steep old red tile roofs. They are arranged as two pairs of one and a half storey houses facing west, adjoining Pilgrims House to the north. Each house shares end chimneys and has doors arranged in pairs. There is one window on each floor of every house, with the upper window extending through the eaves in a flat-topped dormer that has a moulded cornice. The doors are moulded plank style in broad frames, topped with small hoods on brackets. The windows are small-paned, two-light casements. A low iron railing runs in front of the houses. In the middle, there is an oval stone plaque inscribed 'Dedicated in memory of T T G to Westmill by M G', with '1929' on a separate tablet. The almshouses are included for their group value.
Local climate
Pilgrims Close sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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