The Old Almshouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1976. Almshouses. 6 related planning applications.
The Old Almshouse
- WRENN ID
- late-mortar-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1976
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- The Old Almshouse, 24-27, Village Street, Pishill with Stonor, RG9 6HB
- OS grid reference
- SU 736 885
- Coordinates
- 51.59144, -0.93848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Almshouse is a building that dates back to around 1812 and was constructed for the Stonor Estate. It features a U-shaped plan and is made of Flemish bond red brick with flared brick crossbanding, topped with a Welsh slate roof and brick stacks. The structure is two storeys high and has a six-window range. There are flat brick arches above two 20th-century doors, and the windows are 19th or 20th-century two-light casements. The building has dentilled eaves and a hipped roof with ridge stacks. At the rear, there is a 20th-century outshut.
Local climate
The Old Almshouse 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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