The Capel Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. Almshouses.
The Capel Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- endless-wicket-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- The Capel Almshouses, 133 - 143, the Street, RH5 5EJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 175 404
- Coordinates
- 51.15153, -0.32068
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Capel Almshouses are a pair of almshouses built in 1871 in memory of Charles Webb of Clapham Common by his children. They are constructed from coursed sandstone block, which has been partly renewed, and feature plain tiled roofs. The building has a symmetrical layout, with two-storey end blocks flanking a lower, single-storey central range.
The design includes square corbelled stacks at the angles of the re-entrants with wings, and ridge stacks positioned to the left and right of the centre. There is a moulded eaves cornice at the centre. Each wing has a two-light glazing-bar sash window, with 18 panes in each light, set in a stone mullioned surround on the first floor, topped with relieving arches. Below, there is a three-light window on the ground floor. The central range features two two-light sashes with mullions on either side of the centre.
The doors, all featuring strapwork hinges and arched, chamfered heads, are located in set-back bays at the ends, with two additional doors on either side of the centre. The left-hand return front has corbelled eaves and a corbelled band across the first floor, along with a three-light casement window below.
Local climate
The Capel 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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