Brenchley Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1971. A 1789 Almshouses. 1 related planning application.
Brenchley Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- watchful-tin-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1971
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Brenchley Almshouses, 76-82, King Street, ME14 1BH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 764 557
- Coordinates
- 51.27337, 0.52788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brenchley Almshouses, dated 1789, are located on the south side of King Street. This building is two storeys high and constructed of red brick, featuring a hipped tiled roof with leaded ridges. It has a modillion eaves cornice and a string course. The structure includes four casement windows and doorcases topped with flat hoods, with Nos 78 and 80 sharing a joint hood. An inscription on a tablet notes that "These almshouses were built A.D. 1789 by John Brenchley Esq in his life time for the reception and support of decay'd housekeepers of this town and endowed with a donation of £12 per annum to each for ever." Nos 70 to 86 form a group with these almshouses.
Local climate
Brenchley Almshouses sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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