The Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1984. Almshouse.
The Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- pitched-jade-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1984
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- The Almshouses, 1-4, St Mary's Lane, Wrotham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 611 590
- Coordinates
- 51.30754, 0.30991
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Almshouses, Nos 1-4, are a row of almshouses built in 1806 by John Carter. They are constructed from coursed galletted rubble stone with ashlar dressings on an ashlar plinth. The building features a moulded cornice beneath a slate hipped roof, which has two ridge stacks. The central pair of houses projects slightly and is accented with dressed quoins. The structure is one storey high and includes four pairs of lancet casements, separated by three lean-to projections that are doubled in the center. There are four boarded doors facing each other on the sides of these entrance projections. It appears that these projections were added later, re-using drip-moulds from the windows they covered. A crest on the central projection bears the inscription: BENEVOLENTIA HELENAE BETENSO MDCCCVI.
Local climate
The Almshouses receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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