Entrance Walls and Side Buildings at the Parson's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. Entrance walls and side buildings. 1 related planning application.
Entrance Walls and Side Buildings at the Parson's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- hidden-quoin-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- Entrance walls and side buildings
- Address
- Entrance Walls and Side Buildings at the Parson's Almshouses, Stoke Road, GU1 4HW
- OS grid reference
- SU 998 501
- Coordinates
- 51.24192, -0.57123
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parson's Almshouses entrance walls and side buildings date from circa 1796. The walls are constructed of red-brown brick with shaped brick coping. Hipped plain tiled roofs cover the side buildings. The entrance wall is approximately 1.5 metres high and runs across the front of the almshouses, featuring pilaster buttresses - seven to the left and four to the right of the gate. The gate is flanked by piers approximately 2 metres high, and the piers are crowned by stone spheres, with a wrought iron gate between. The wall curves southwards to return along Onslow Road and connects to a single-storey, rectangular outbuilding. An angled return to the north, facing Queens Road, connects to a similar single-storey block. This block has ogee-headed, leaded casement windows - two on the front elevation and blind on the return wall.
Local climate
Entrance Walls and Side Buildings at the Parson's Almshouses receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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- 4 Forecourt Wall to Almshouses
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