Porters and Walters Almshouses, St Leonard's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Haringey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1974. Almshouse. 2 related planning applications.

Porters and Walters Almshouses, St Leonard's Almshouses

WRENN ID
winter-step-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Haringey
Constituency
Southgate and Wood Green MP: Bambos Charalambous (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 May 1974
Type
Almshouse
Address
Porters and Walters Almshouses, St Leonard's Almshouses, Nightingale Road N22, N22 8PZ
OS grid reference
TQ 306 910
Coordinates
51.60357, -0.11417
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Porters and Walters Almshouses, also known as St Leonard's Almshouses, were built in 1904 and consist of a two-storey range of four houses, each containing four flats. The building features five windows on the first floor and two wide canted bays on the ground floor, with a door situated between them. Constructed from red brick with quoins, the roof is slated and has wood moulded and modillioned eaves cornice. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are set within exposed moulded frames and are topped with gauged flat brick arches, with brick aprons beneath. The cornices of the ground floor bays are continuous, creating a hood over a central round-headed door that includes a traceried round light. This hood is supported by square posts and features carved angle brackets, while the lower parts of the bays are pebble-dashed. St Leonard's House, the Commemorative Stone, and the front railings and gates together form a group with the almshouses.

Local climate

Porters and Walters Almshouses, St Leonard'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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