The Great Almshouses is a Grade II* listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. Almshouses. 5 related planning applications.
The Great Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- rusted-quartz-equinox
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- The Great Almshouses, Church Lane, Burford
- OS grid reference
- SP 252 123
- Coordinates
- 51.80918, -1.63454
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great Almshouses, also known as Warwick Almshouses, are a mid-15th century building that was restored and altered in 1828. They are constructed from coursed rubble with a Cotswold stone roof and stand two storeys high. The building features a coped verge string over the first floor and a coped verge to the right, along with two rubble chimneys.
There are four windows of the two-light lancet type with foiled heads, and ground floor windows have labels and ferramenta. The structure includes two low Tudor arch doors with labels, and a central door that has traceried spandrels and a label. There are also outer slightly raised Tudor arch doorways that are blocked, each with labels. Above the central doorway is a tablet inscribed with "These almshouses were founded by Richard Earl of Warwick in the year 1457 and were rebuilt in the year 1828." A blocked doorway is located to the right of this. The building has L-plan wings at the rear.
Local climate
The Great Almshouses receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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