The Rawlins Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Bromley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1973. Almshouse. 1 related planning application.
The Rawlins Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- third-belfry-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromley
- Constituency
- Beckenham and Penge MP: Liam Conlon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1973
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- The Rawlins Almshouses, 1-5, Bromley Road, BR3 5JG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 375 696
- Coordinates
- 51.40883, -0.02426
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rawlins Almshouses, located on Bromley Road in Beckenham, were originally built in 1694 but were largely rebuilt in 1881. The building is a single storey with an attic and features three windows and three gabled dormers. It is constructed of red brick and has a coved stuccoed eaves cornice, topped with a tiled roof. The windows are casement style. Above the central doorway, there is a tablet that reads: "Anthony Rawlins Esq built these Houses for ye poor of this Parish of Beckenham Anno. Dom. 1694."
Local climate
The Rawlins Almshouses 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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