The Royal Naval Asylum is a Grade II listed building in the Bromley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1972. Almshouses.
The Royal Naval Asylum
- WRENN ID
- late-vestry-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromley
- Constituency
- Beckenham and Penge MP: Liam Conlon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1972
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- The Royal Naval Asylum, 1-12, St Johns Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 353 705
- Coordinates
- 51.4179, -0.0554
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Naval Asylum, located on St John's Road in Penge, consists of almshouses for the widows of naval officers. Founded by Queen Adelaide in memory of William IV around 1837, the buildings are designed in the Tudor Gothic style. They are constructed of red brick featuring a diaper pattern of grey headers and have slate roofs topped with groups of octagonal red brick chimneys. The windows are casement style, and the doorways are 4-centred with carved spandrels. The complex is arranged in three blocks of two storeys, forming three sides of a courtyard. The central block has six windows and six gables, while each side block has three windows and three gables. The Royal Arms of William IV is prominently displayed in the centre.
Local climate
The Royal Naval Asylum sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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