Streche's Almhouses is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. Almshouses. 2 related planning applications.
Streche's Almhouses
- WRENN ID
- hushed-hinge-burdock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Streche's Almhouses, 2, 4 and 4a, East Street, Wareham Town, BH20 4NP
- OS grid reference
- SY 923 873
- Coordinates
- 50.68601, -2.10936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Streche's Almshouses, built in 1741, are located on the south side of East Street. The building is constructed from colourwashed brick and features a pitched Purbeck slate roof with brick gable coping and red brick stacks. It is two storeys high and has blocked giant angle pilasters, along with two pilasters supporting a central pediment. The tympanum of the pediment contains an oblong panel with an inscription that reads: "This ALMSHOUSE Founded time immemorial for the maintenance of six antient Men and five Women was Endowed AD 1418 by JOHN STRECH Esqr and Rebuilt by HENRY DRAX and JOHN PITT Esqrs. AD 1741."
Atop the pediment is a square wooden bellcote featuring round arches with moulded voussoirs and keystones, flanked by pilasters that support a full entablature, topped with an ogival lead roof. The first floor has six modern casement windows and three blocked windows, while the ground floor has eight late 19th-century casement windows. A planked door is accessed by two steps and is set within a blocked semi-circular arch, framed by blocked pilasters that support an entablature with a keystone. The building also displays a Sun Insurance Company Badge.
Nos 2 to 20 (even) form a group with this structure.
Local climate
Streche's Almhouses receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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