The Retreat Almshouses at Rear of 14 and 16 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1976. A C19 Almshouse.
The Retreat Almshouses at Rear of 14 and 16 High Street
- WRENN ID
- woven-parapet-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1976
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- The Retreat Almshouses at Rear of 14 and 16 High Street, 1-5, Stony Stratford
- OS grid reference
- SP 788 404
- Coordinates
- 52.05649, -0.85127
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retreat Almshouses, located at the rear of 14 and 16 High Street in Stony Stratford, were built in 1892. This single-storey building features three entrances and five windows, with two large gables and one smaller gable. Constructed from stone with brick dressings, it has quoins and a toothed eaves band. The roof is tiled, adorned with a crested ridge and a terracotta flue finial at the center gable. The entrances are round-headed with recessed doors, while the windows have cantered heads and are fitted with casements that include eccentric glazing. The gables also feature paired pointed vents. The Retreat Almshouses, numbered 1 to 5 consecutively, along with the south-east wall of the courtyard, form a cohesive group.
Local climate
The Retreat Almshouses at Rear of 14 and 16 High Street 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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