Hanmer Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1954. Almshouses.
Hanmer Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- still-vault-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1954
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Hanmer Almshouses, 14 - 17, the Church Yard, Mildenhall High
- OS grid reference
- TL 709 745
- Coordinates
- 52.34282, 0.5085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hanmer Almshouses is a terrace of four almshouses built in 1722, as indicated on a central plaque. They were commissioned by Sir Thomas Hanmer of Wamil Hall, who served as Speaker of The House of Commons. The building is single-storey with eight windows, constructed of pink and brown brick with orange brick dressings. It features a hipped roof covered in plain tiles and has axial chimneys made of red brick. The windows are 20th-century steel casements with leaded lights set in 18th-century openings, which have segmental arched heads made of finely gauged orange brick. The doorways also have similar arched heads, with 20th-century framed and boarded doors that include fanlights. A limestone plaque with a moulded border commemorates the founder and the construction date in an ornate Latin script.
Local climate
Hanmer Almshouses sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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