The Old Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1954. House, almshouses.
The Old Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- far-newel-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1954
- Type
- House, almshouses
- Address
- The Old Almshouses, the Street, Drinkstone
- OS grid reference
- TL 959 615
- Coordinates
- 52.21735, 0.86662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Almshouses is a house, formerly used as almshouses, built in the late 16th century or early 17th century, likely originally as a single dwelling. It has two storeys and a three-cell plan, with an additional set-forward range on the left side. The structure is timber-framed and roughcast, topped with thatched roofs. It features an axial chimney made of early 17th century red brick and a large external chimney at the front gable, which was originally internal and has been plastered. The range once extended further forward. The windows are mid-20th century steel small-pane casements. There is a boarded entrance door and a large mid-20th century thatched-roofed porch supported by oak posts, featuring an arched doorway that has been reused from an old building.
Local climate
The Old Almshouses sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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