Town Alms is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1951. Almshouse. 1 related planning application.
Town Alms
- WRENN ID
- buried-basalt-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1951
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Town Alms, 90 and 92, New Street, Great Torrington, EX38 8BT
- OS grid reference
- SS 492 192
- Coordinates
- 50.95271, -4.14774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Alms, located at Nos 90 and 92 on New Street, dates from 1735. The building is a two-storey structure with a stucco finish, likely built around 1829. The first floor features one sash window, while the hipped roof is covered with old grouted slates. On the ground floor, there is a doorway and a shop window that includes contemporary glazing bars, along with a fanlight that has central glazing bars.
The Town Alms is part of a group that includes Nos 48, 48A, 50, 72, 80, 82, the Baptist Chapel, Nos 90, 92, 110, 112, and 130. The descriptive notes indicate that a stone range containing eight dwellings, dated 1843, is set back behind a front court. This range is constructed of coursed rubble with rendered dressings and features two porch winds with gables and finials, as well as Tudor doorways with hood moulds. The roof is slate, and there are ranges of chimneys set diagonally. The building was restored in 1933, and the leaded windows are likely from this restoration.
Local climate
Town Alms receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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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