Streche's Almhouses is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1976. Almshouses. 3 related planning applications.
Streche's Almhouses
- WRENN ID
- crooked-column-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1976
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Streche's Almhouses, Worgret Road, Wareham Town
- OS grid reference
- SY 920 872
- Coordinates
- 50.68509, -2.11439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Streche's Almshouses, built in 1907, are located on the north side of Worgret Road. The building is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and quoins, featuring a pitched tile roof and red brick stacks. The stone-coped gables are topped with Jacobean-type finials. The almshouses have a U-shaped plan and consist of one storey. The central block has an embattled parapet and includes three windows, with a central canted mullion and transom window. There are two doors and a lantern on the ridge topped with a copper pagoda roof. Each wing has one bay window with mullions, and there are elaborate stone cartouches above them. Additionally, there are six segment-headed porches with gables above and a total of twenty mullioned casements.
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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