Almshouses Including Front Wall is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1955. Almshouse. 2 related planning applications.
Almshouses Including Front Wall
- WRENN ID
- proud-roof-heron
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1955
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Almshouses Including Front Wall, Wimborne St. Giles, BH21 5LZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 031 119
- Coordinates
- 50.90731, -1.95627
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a range of 10 almshouses with a central common room, dating from around 1624. The structure features Flemish-bond brickwork and a tiled roof with end stone copings and brick kneelers. It has a heavy, moulded brick cornice and diagonally set, paired brick stacks with moulded caps positioned between the almshouses. The building is single storey and consists of a 10-window range. The windows are moulded, square-headed, 2-light stone mullioned types. There are paired ashlar doorways with depressed 4-centred heads and plank doors.
The central former common room includes an ashlar loggia supported by three round arches. Above the common room, there is a gabled roof featuring a central cartouche of arms, flanked by square-headed casement windows. The central doorway leading from the loggia to the former common room is highly ornate, with a surround decorated with arabesques on the uprights and a palmette above. This doorway also has moulded stiles and rails, topped by a round-headed open panel that contains a fretwork panel with a carved grotesque mask.
Local climate
Almshouses Including Front Wall receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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
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