Geale's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the East Hampshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1951. Almshouses.
Geale's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- floating-pillar-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hampshire
- Constituency
- East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1951
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Geale's Almshouses, Church Street, Alton
- OS grid reference
- SU 718 395
- Coordinates
- 51.15054, -0.97433
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Geale's Almshouses, founded in 1653, is a block of four cottages located on Church Street. The building is two storeys high and features six bays arranged in a pattern of window-coupled doors and windows, repeated twice. Constructed from brick with a tiled roof, each half of the block has a central pair of oak doors with heavy wrought-iron strap hinges set within a single moulded oak frame. These doors are flanked by four-light mullioned and lattice-paned casement windows on the ground floor. On the first floor, there are two similar windows, but these have brick hood moulds. All windows have stuccoed coverings on the mullions and frames. A moulded stringcourse runs at the first-floor level, and there is an eaves cornice.
Local climate
Geale's Almshouses receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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