4, Northcroft Lane is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. Almshouse.
4, Northcroft Lane
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-solder-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- 4, Northcroft Lane, Newbury
- OS grid reference
- SU 470 672
- Coordinates
- 51.40197, -1.32499
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 4 on Northcroft Lane is a pair of almshouses built around 1821, established and funded by John Childs for three male members of the Church of England. The building is designed in the Gothick style and consists of two storeys with a double front featuring three windows. It has a hipped tile roof and is constructed from red brick, accented with a dentil eaves cornice. The windows are arched, with two-light casement windows that include Y tracery and hoodmounds. A wide central doorway is topped with a moulded hood, and above the doorway is a blind window that bears a dedicatory inscription: 'This Almshouse was erected and endorsed AD 1821 by Mr John Childs sail-cloth manufacturer of this town for poor men of good moral character, natives and parishoners of Newbury.'
Local climate
4, Northcroft Lane receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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