Douglas Almshouses (South Row) is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1971. Almshouse. 1 related planning application.

Douglas Almshouses (South Row)

WRENN ID
stubborn-cellar-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 May 1971
Type
Almshouse
Address
Douglas Almshouses (South Row), Faversham Road, Lenham, ME17 2PL
OS grid reference
TQ 898 522
Coordinates
51.23772, 0.71829
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Douglas Almshouses, located on Faversham Road, were built in the mid-19th century. They are constructed of red brick, primarily in header bond, and feature a plain tile roof. The first floor has a small area of banded plain and fishscale tile-hanging to the right of the center. The building is positioned at right angles to the road, forming the south side of an unenclosed courtyard. It has two storeys with projecting eaves that have flat soffits. There are brick ridge stacks at each end of the row.

The fenestration is irregular, consisting of 11 windows: seven two-light horizontally-sliding sashes, three single-light casements, and one two-light casement. The ground-floor windows have segmental heads. There are two half-glazed doors with segmental heads leading to communal staircases, one at the left end and one off-center to the right beneath the tile-hanging. Between these doors is one blocked door and another towards the right end. Additionally, there is a mid-to-late 19th-century block parallel to the road at the east end. The interiors have not been inspected.

Local climate

Douglas Almshouses (South Row) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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