The Lyte Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Almshouse. 5 related planning applications.
The Lyte Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-gable-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- The Lyte Almshouses, 69-74, Kington St. Michael
- OS grid reference
- ST 904 773
- Coordinates
- 51.49499, -2.13956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lyte Almshouses are a row of six almshouses built in 1675 for Isaac Lyte, an Alderman of London, located in Kington St Michael. The structure is made of rubble stone with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof with coped gables and a saddlestone. There are three large chimney gables at the rear. The front has a regular six-gabled design with 3-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows, hoodmoulds above the upper windows, and a dripcourse over the ground floor. Each of the six doors is set in flush moulded and stopped surrounds with steps leading up to them, with one door at each end and paired doors between the second and third windows and between the fourth and fifth windows. The third gable includes a first-floor plaque with a cornice that commemorates Lyte's benefaction, situated below a window, and features a boldly carved large coat of arms above.
Local climate
The Lyte Almshouses receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 5 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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