Archway Connecting to the Almshouses is a Grade II* listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1951. A Victorian Archway.
Archway Connecting to the Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-tower-meadow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1951
- Type
- Archway
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Archway Connecting to the Almshouses, High Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 531 541
- Coordinates
- 51.26614, 0.19403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The archway connecting to the Almshouses, dated 1890, is an ornamental stone structure located to the right of the school courtyard, leading to the new school hall at the rear of the Almshouses. It features a four-centred arch with a central carved voussoir, a broken dentilled entablature, a dentilled racking cornice, and an ornamental carved tympanum. The archway is supported by rusticated stone pilasters. This structure is part of a group that includes the Almshouses associated with Sevenoaks School, although it does not include the modern school buildings located behind.
Local climate
Archway Connecting to the Almshouses receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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