Bishop Wood's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1951. Almshouses. 3 related planning applications.

Bishop Wood's Almshouses

WRENN ID
odd-cobalt-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hackney
Constituency
Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP: Ms Diane Abbott (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 April 1951
Type
Almshouses
Address
Bishop Wood's Almshouses, Lower Clapton Road E5, E5 0QH
OS grid reference
TQ 349 859
Coordinates
51.55648, -0.05461
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

These are a late 17th-century range of single-storey almshouses arranged in a U-shape, significantly restored in later centuries. The buildings are constructed of red brick with high-pitched tiled roofs. Modern doors and casement windows are set within segmental arches. Tall chimneys are positioned at intervals, and are part of the late 19th-century restoration work. A small chapel, also of red brick with stone dressings in a late 14th-century style, sits at the north-east corner. The north wing has a flat roof. A shaped gable forms the end wall of the south wing, and features a plaque commemorating the founder, Thomas Wood (1607-92), bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, as well as the restoration carried out in 1930 by H R Ross. The almshouses are part of a group that includes the stable and wall at number 162.

Local climate

Bishop Wood's Almshouses sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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