Gell's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Hillingdon local planning authority area, England. Almshouse.
Gell's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- patient-steeple-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hillingdon
- Constituency
- Uxbridge and South Ruislip MP: Danny Beales (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Gell's Almshouses, 22-26, Swakeleys Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 078 863
- Coordinates
- 51.56533, -0.44594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gell's Almshouses, located at 22 to 26 Swakeleys Road in Ickenham, are a picturesque group of buildings dated 1857. They are constructed of flint rubble with red brick dressings and feature a high-pitched tiled roof with three front-facing gables, with the outer gables being hipped. Half dormers break the eaves between the gables. The structure is two storeys high and has seven windows in total, most of which are mullioned and transomed with square panes. Above each outer door, there is a lozenge-shaped window. The central door is situated under a slab and bears the inscription: "Ickenham Cottages." All openings are topped with flattened Tudor arches.
Local climate
Gell's Almshouses sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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