Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1984. Almshouse. 4 related planning applications.
Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- eastward-banister-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1984
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Almshouses, 1-10, Hargham Road, Old Buckenham, NR17 1SH
- OS grid reference
- TM 061 912
- Coordinates
- 52.48061, 1.03469
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are ten almshouses built in 1860, arranged in a row. They are constructed of brick with gault brick detailing and have a slate roof. The buildings are single-storey and feature central and projecting end gables. The central porch, located under a gable on kneelers, has two depressed arches made of gault brick and contains an inscribed plaque. All the windows are cross casements with traceried heads, set under depressed arches and framed by gault brick architraves. The roof has double diamond flues leading to regularly spaced ridge stacks.
Local climate
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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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 — 4 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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