Wright's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Enfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1974. Almshouses.
Wright's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- last-roof-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Enfield
- Constituency
- Enfield North MP: Feryal Clark (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1974
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Wright's Almshouses, 346-356, Hertford Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 352 977
- Coordinates
- 51.66214, -0.04597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wright's Almshouses, built in 1847, is a symmetrical row of cottages located at 4411 Hertford Road. Each cottage is two storeys high and features one window, with blank panels above the doors. The four central bays project slightly and are topped with a pediment. The building has a fairly low pitched slated roof and is constructed of stock brick with red brick quoins. The window dressings and diagonal brick cornice are part of the pediment design. Doors and recessed sash windows, which have glazing bars and stone sills, are adorned with gauged flat brick arches. Each cottage has a four-panel door that is sheltered by heavy stone cornice hoods supported by carved scrolled brackets, reflecting a 17th-century style. A stone tablet in a moulded brick frame in the pediment reads: "These almshouses were erected, and endowed by Mr Charles Wright of Enfield Highway for the support of 6 poor women. AD 1847."
Local climate
Wright'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 97% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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