Farnells Almshouses Farnell's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Hounslow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1991. Almshouses.
Farnells Almshouses Farnell's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- kindled-pewter-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hounslow
- Constituency
- Brentford and Isleworth MP: Ruth Cadbury (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1991
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Farnells Almshouses Farnell's Almshouses, 6a, St Johns Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 156 760
- Coordinates
- 51.47182, -0.33678
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farnell's Almshouses are a group of almshouses built in 1857, likely designed by John Deason for John Farnell. The buildings are constructed from squared and coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and feature a gabled slate roof with ashlar ridge stacks that have moulded cornicing. The almshouses form three sides of a quadrangle, with a wall and gateway on the east side that encloses the north-east corner. They are single-storey structures. Each cottage has doorways with stop-chamfered architraves, which are either square-headed or segmental-arched, and there are three-light windows with chamfered stone mullions and square heads. Additional features include a low wall topped with iron railings and a stone-coped gabled gateway that has a hoodmould over a chamfered pointed-arched entrance. There is also a memorial to John Farnell, dating from around 1857, which consists of a bust of Farnell set on a stone plinth within a timber-framed canopy that is arch-braced to the wallplate and topped with a pyramidal slate roof. The Farnell Almshouses and the school were established under the patronage of John Farnell.
Local climate
Farnells Almshouses Farnell'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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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