Cowley's Almhouses is a Grade II listed building in the Runnymede local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1980. Almshouse. 1 related planning application.
Cowley's Almhouses
- WRENN ID
- keen-tower-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Runnymede
- Constituency
- Runnymede and Weybridge MP: Dr Ben Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1980
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Cowley's Almhouses, Guildford Road, KT16 9BH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 037 663
- Coordinates
- 51.38641, -0.51021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cowley’s Almhouses are a complex of buildings founded in 1671 by Thomas Cowley, originally located in London Street. The central section, dating from 1788 and built at the expense of Richard Clark, comprises two storeys of red brick. It features two-light casement windows. A Victorian tiled canopy, supported by brackets, shelters the painted front doors. The roof is tiled, with chimney stacks at each end. To the right and left of the central section are matching one-storey wings, clearly of a later date. Each of these houses has a matching casement window and a door, both sheltered by a canopy, beneath a hipped, old tile roof.
Local climate
Cowley's Almhouses 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 3 transactions since 2017
- 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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