Thackeray's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Lewisham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1973. Almshouse.
Thackeray's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- buried-grate-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lewisham
- Constituency
- Lewisham East MP: Janet Daby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1973
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Thackeray's Almshouses, Rushey Green Se13
- OS grid reference
- TQ 378 742
- Coordinates
- 51.45061, -0.01747
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thackeray's Almshouses, built in 1840, is a two-storey building featuring six windows. It has a high-pitched tiled roof with cross-gables at each end, which are adorned with groups of diagonal chimney shafts. The structure is made of multicoloured stock brick and has a parapet with rounded brick dentils that extend over the gable ends. The round-headed openings are framed by gauged red brick arches, and the first floor has paired windows set in chamfered reveals within double recesses. In the center, there is a carved stone depiction of the Thackeray family arms, accompanied by a stone label below that bears the inscription: "Built and endowed 1840 for Six Aged Females by John Thackeray of The Priory, Lewisham, who died on the 13th day of May 1851." The ground floor features a pattern of alternating windows and doors, with paired doors located centrally beneath a wide round arch that has chevron moulding.
Local climate
Thackeray'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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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