Cleave's Almshouses is a Grade II* listed building in the Kingston upon Thames local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1951. Almshouse. 10 related planning applications.
Cleave's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- noble-tracery-azure
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Kingston upon Thames
- Constituency
- Kingston and Surbiton MP: Ed Davey (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1951
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Cleave's Almshouses, Old London Road, KT2 6NQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 184 693
- Coordinates
- 51.41092, -0.29831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cleave's Almshouses, dated 1668, is a long range of twelve two-storey dwellings. The centre gable, which has been partly rebuilt, features a moulded brick verge and a sundial, positioned above a slate descriptive tablet with a carved stone surround and a broken pedimented top. The building has a tiled roof with hipped ends and twelve chimneys. There are six windows on each side of the centre gable, and three oval windows above the central doorway, all with gauged brick surrounds. The central door is divided into two halves, each with six moulded and fielded panels, flanked by two windows on each side. The surround to the central door includes chamfered quoins and a head. Each of the twelve dwellings has its own door, which features hoods. The building also has a moulded brick eaves cornice and a flat string at the first-floor level, along with a splayed brick plinth. The windows are casement style with lancet lead lights.
Local climate
Cleave's 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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