The Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1982. Almshouse.
The Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- worn-foundation-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1982
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- The Almshouses, Hurstwood Road, Buxted
- OS grid reference
- TQ 487 235
- Coordinates
- 50.9922, 0.11803
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Almshouses, dated 1864, are a single-storey building featuring four windows. Constructed of stone with a tiled roof, the structure includes casement windows. It has three gabled projections adorned with scalloped bargeboards; the central projection serves as a porch, while the two side projections each have a bay window consisting of two tiers of five lights.
Local climate
The Almshouses receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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