Edwardstone Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. Almshouse. 1 related planning application.
Edwardstone Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- little-plinth-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Edwardstone Almshouses, 57-61, Swan Street, Boxford, CO10 5NZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 960 407
- Coordinates
- 52.03015, 0.85657
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are a range of red brick almshouses with yellow brick quoins, built in 1855. They have one storey and a six-window front, featuring small casement windows with heavy, stucco hood moulds. The doors are four-panel affairs. The roof is slate, with hipped ends to the north-west and south-east. A shield on the front of the building is inscribed with the date of construction.
Local climate
Edwardstone 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
- 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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