Smith's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1951. Almshouses. 3 related planning applications.
Smith's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- worn-courtyard-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1951
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Smith's Almshouses, Elm Street, IP1 2AB
- OS grid reference
- TM 160 445
- Coordinates
- 52.05681, 1.1503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smith's Almshouses is a mid-18th century red brick building located on Elm Street. It stands two storeys high and includes cellars, featuring a seven-window range with double-hung sashes that have glazing bars, all set in flush cased frames. The windows are widely spaced across the facade. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door framed by a wood doorcase with a moulded architrave, panelled reveals, and a flat hood supported by brackets. Above the door is a rectangular fanlight with vertical glazing bars. There is also a panel above the doorway inscribed with the words: "Erected in the year 1760 for the benefit of 12 poor women of honest life and conversation of the age of 50 or upwards being Communicants of the Church of England as by law Established." The roof is tiled and features two square red brick chimney stacks. Smith's Almshouses is part of a group that includes the Church of St Mary at the Elms, St Mary's Cottage, and Nos 25, 29 to 33 (odd).
Local climate
Smith's 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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