The Windsor Almhouses is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1975. Almshouses.
The Windsor Almhouses
- WRENN ID
- idle-timber-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Windsor MP: Jack Rankin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1975
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- The Windsor Almhouses, Victoria Street, SL4 1EW
- OS grid reference
- SU 966 766
- Coordinates
- 51.48025, -0.60904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Windsor Almshouses, built in 1862, are Gothic-style almshouses arranged in an E shape around three sides of a garden. They feature polychrome brickwork. The central part of the main range facing the road has a three-bay arcade and a group of three pointed windows on the first floor. Above this is a steep gable with timber framing in a cusped quatrefoil pattern, topped by a small clock tower with a slate spire. On either side of the center, there are slightly recessed bays with steep hipped gables that have applied framing on their crowning gablets. The end blocks also have hipped gables. The building includes steep gabled porches supported by columns capped with foliate designs, contributing to its picturesque appearance.
Local climate
The Windsor Almhouses sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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