Old Alms House is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House.
Old Alms House
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-render-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Alms House, Watercress Lane, Wingham Well, CT3 1NS
- OS grid reference
- TR 236 567
- Coordinates
- 51.26632, 1.20445
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Alms House is a 16th-century house located on Watercress Lane in Wingham. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered and has applied timber on a red brick base, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building is one storey high with an attic, set on a tall base. It has a hipped roof with gablets and stacks positioned at the centre left and right ends, along with two hipped dormers. The façade includes two wooden casement windows and a half-glazed door on the left, which is accessed by a flight of five steps. To the left, there is a wooden casement window in the outshots, and a weatherboarded outshot is located to the right.
Local climate
Old Alms House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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