Sir Robert Hitcham's Almshouses is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Almshouse.
Sir Robert Hitcham's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- tenth-entrance-sparrow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Sir Robert Hitcham's Almshouses, New Road, Framlingham
- OS grid reference
- TM 282 635
- Coordinates
- 52.22242, 1.34045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sir Robert Hitcham's Almshouses is a row of 12 almshouses built in 1654 according to the will of Sir Robert Hitcham, using materials from the nearby demolished castle. The building is one storey with attics, constructed of red brick in English Bond and covered with plaintiles. A moulded brick cornice serves as a string course for the dormers. The central feature is a projecting gabled porch that rises to one and a half storeys. There are six internal chimney stacks with plain red brick shafts. The almshouses have 12 three-light casement windows with moulded jambs, mullions, and diamond leaded panes, as well as six two-light diamond leaded casement windows with flat hoodmoulds set into full dormers. Each almshouse has a two-panel door with a hoodmould. The building has been restored.
Local climate
Sir Robert Hitcham's Almshouses sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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