Pollen's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. Almshouse. 3 related planning applications.
Pollen's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- tenth-panel-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- North West Hampshire MP: Kit Malthouse (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1950
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Pollen's Almshouses, 12-22, Marlborough Street, Andover, SP10 1DG
- OS grid reference
- SU 364 458
- Coordinates
- 51.21084, -1.47996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pollen's Almshouses, built in 1686 with later 19th-century restoration, is a regular row of cottages featuring one storey and an attic. The building has six windows and three paired doorways, topped with a tile roof that includes a catslide at the rear. There are three large old chimneys and six dormers with sills at eaves level, complemented by brick-faced gables. The exterior is constructed of coursed flint walling in panels, accented with red brick dressings. Quoins frame all openings and corners, extending vertically above a horizontal band at the first-floor level, and there is a high brick plinth. The end gables display similar banding with a central vertical feature. The windows have modern casements, and the doors are plain boarded. Above the central doorways, a stone panel is inscribed with "Almshouses erected by John Pollen Esq 1686."
Local climate
Pollen's Almshouses receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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