Almhouses (Nos 1 to 30 and the Chapel) is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1970. Almshouses. 6 related planning applications.
Almhouses (Nos 1 to 30 and the Chapel)
- WRENN ID
- kindled-postern-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1970
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Almhouses (Nos 1 to 30 and the Chapel), South Road, Faversham, ME13 7LU
- OS grid reference
- TR 011 612
- Coordinates
- 51.31485, 0.88522
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The almshouses, numbered 1 to 30, along with the chapel, are a Gothic-style building constructed between 1863 and 1864. Designed by Messrs Hooker and Wheeler from Brenchley, Kent, and built by the Chinnock brothers of Southampton, the structure features a symmetrical range that is 470 feet long, with return wings extending 120 feet towards Tanners Street and Napleton Street. The building is made of red brick, accented with white bulk bands and stone dressings, and has tiled roofs. It includes casement windows and has two low towers at each end of the main front, which contain water tanks. There are two gabled projections between these towers and the center. The ground floor is arcaded, with gabled porches situated between the main gabled projections. At the center of the main front is the chapel, a stone building in the Decorated style that projects outward. It features two-light windows with quatrefoils in the spandrels and previously had pointed bell turrets on either side of the roof.
Local climate
Almhouses (Nos 1 to 30 and the Chapel) 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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