The Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Almshouse.
The Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- dark-ashlar-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- The Almshouses, the Street, Peasenhall
- OS grid reference
- TM 358 695
- Coordinates
- 52.27318, 1.4549
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Almshouses, originally one house, were built in the 16th century and converted into almshouses in 1891. At the rear, there is a small outbuilding, likely from the 17th century, which is now disused. The main structure has a timber-framed core that is mostly covered in red brick, featuring panels of herringbone brickwork on the upper part of the facade, and has a pantiled roof. It is a single storey with an attic and has three windows with two-light casements. Number 1 has a partly glazed boarded and battened door, while Number 2 has a two-panel door. There are two gabled dormers and an internal stack. Number 1 retains some exposed 16th-century joists. A stone shield on the facade is inscribed "Home for the Aged. In memory of Dorothea Pike Scrivener and Mabel Levett Scrivener E.M.L 1891 E.L.S."
Local climate
The Almshouses sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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