Cheyney Charity Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Lewes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1976. Almshouses.
Cheyney Charity Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- shifting-stair-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lewes
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1976
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Cheyney Charity Almshouses, the Green, Ringmer
- OS grid reference
- TQ 448 125
- Coordinates
- 50.89459, 0.05849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cheyney Charity Almshouses are a pair of single-storeyed almshouses located in Ringmer, dating back to their founding in 1611 and rebuilt in 1848. The building features one storey and an attic, with two windows and two gabled dormers. The exterior is faced with knapped flints, which are accented by long and short window surrounds and quoins made of Roman cement. The windows are casement style with diamond-shaped latticed panes. A gabled porch with an archway that has a pointed head adds to the architectural character of the almshouses. Above the door, there is a plaque that commemorates their founding and endowment by Mrs. Elizabeth Cheyney.
Local climate
Cheyney Charity Almshouses receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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