Old Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1974. Almshouses.
Old Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- under-postern-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1974
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Old Almshouses, 1, Cobb's Well, Fowey
- OS grid reference
- SX 124 517
- Coordinates
- 50.33565, -4.63695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Almshouses, located at Cobb's Well in Fowey, date from the early 17th century, specifically before 1626. This building consists of a row of small, two-storey structures made of uncoursed rubble. There are four windows in total, featuring new casements, all with wooden stop-chamfered lintels. The ground floor has three-light windows, while the first floor has two-light casements with leaded lights. The doors are made of board with vertical fillets. The building has a steeply pitched slate roof with gable ends. Nos 1 to 6 form a cohesive group.
Local climate
Old Almshouses sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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