United Westminster Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1974. Almshouse. 1 related planning application.
United Westminster Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- endless-eave-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1974
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- United Westminster Almshouses, Rochester Row Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1P 1JU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 294 790
- Coordinates
- 51.49523, -0.13637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The United Westminster Almshouses are a late 19th-century building from 1880 to 1882, designed by R R Arnteg, and built to replace earlier almshouses. The main central section is two storeys and an attic, while the flanking wings are three storeys and slightly project, finished with Flemish gables. The central section features three windows with mullions and transoms, and a projecting porch with Doric corner piers, a tryglyph frieze, and a pediment in rubbed brick, with keystones above the windows. A sill band and covered eaves cornice are present, and the building has a tile roof with three pedimented dormers and a square cupola with a dome and window arch. The projecting wings each have three windows per floor, also with keystones, and circular windows in the gables. The windows in the wings are sash windows with glazing bars only to the upper halves. The building's group value is recognised.
Local climate
United Westminster 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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