Ranshaws Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Almshouses. 2 related planning applications.
Ranshaws Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- patient-merlon-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Ranshaws Almshouses, 21-25, Spicer Street, AL3 4PH
- OS grid reference
- TL 144 072
- Coordinates
- 51.7526, -0.34266
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ranshaws Almshouses, built in 1846, is a row of three almshouses that stands two storeys high and features four windows. The three doors are symmetrically placed between the windows on the ground floor. The building is constructed of red brick, decorated with diamond patterns of blue headers, and has a cement rendered plinth. It has a moderately low pitched slate roof with eaves soffit and four chimney stacks with diagonal shafts. The windows are three-light casements with stone mullions and glazing bars that create small panes. There are stone hoodmoulds above the ground floor windows and doors. The central door is set in a slightly projecting gabled bay with a pointed arch and stone coping. A plaque at the centre of the first floor reads: "Ranshaw's Charity 1846".
Local climate
Ranshaws Almshouses sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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