Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1973. Almshouse.
Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- knotted-pilaster-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1973
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Almshouses, Byttom Hill, Mickleham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 173 538
- Coordinates
- 51.27175, -0.31902
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The almshouses, built in 1864, are located on Byttom Hill in Mickleham. They are constructed from flint with stone quoins and dressings. The building features a prominent central wing that is two storeys high and has three windows. Each window bay is topped with a gable that has bargeboards. Above the central wing, there are two three-light casement windows and one one-light window in the middle. Below, there is a four-centred arched doorway with a door that has a hipped tiled hood above it. A stringcourse runs along the building. Flanking the central wing are single-storey wings, each with two windows and a central doorway. The stringcourse rises above all the ground floor windows, creating a hood-mould effect. The windows have stone dressings and feature hexagonal and diamond-shaped panes. There are tall chimney stacks grouped in threes on either side of the central wing.
Local climate
Almshouses sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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