Poor's House the Master's House is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1966. Workhouse, house pair. 1 related planning application.
Poor's House the Master's House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-mantel-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1966
- Type
- Workhouse, house pair
- Address
- Poor's House the Master's House, 20, High Street, Elham, CT4 6TB
- OS grid reference
- TR 176 439
- Coordinates
- 51.15367, 1.1111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A parish workhouse and the master’s house, dating from the late 18th century, now forming a pair of houses. The building is constructed of red and grey brick in Flemish bond, with the left gable end tile-hung (likely over a brick core) and the right gable end brick. It has a plain tile roof with a hipped section cut back over the central part. A rendered brick gable-end stack is present on the left, and a rear stack on the right. The fenestration is irregular, featuring four windows. The second floor has three two-light horizontally-sliding sashes and one two-light casement. The first floor has four recessed twenty-pane sashes with segmental heads, one to each “wing” and two to the central section. The ground floor includes three multipane canted bay windows on brick bases, each with a flat corniced roof. A door with four fielded panels, two top lights, and a flat bracketed hood, leading up three steps, is located at the right end of the left “wing,” which is The Master’s House. A blocked carriage entrance is visible at the left end of the central section. A panelled door with two small top lights and a flat bracketed hood, leading up three steps, is at the left end of the right “wing,” which is the Poor's House. A two-storey rear lean-to is also present. The interior has not been inspected. A building at the rear, now located in The Row, is believed to have been the former hospital of the workhouse, but it is not listed.
Local climate
Poor's House the Master's House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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