Brock's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. Almshouse. 1 related planning application.
Brock's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- woven-nave-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1952
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Brock's Almshouses, Castle Road, Okehampton
- OS grid reference
- SX 587 948
- Coordinates
- 50.73597, -4.00355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brock's Almshouses, dated 1847, are a pair of semi-detached almshouse cottages constructed from Delabole Mate rubble. They feature a slate roof with gabled ends, ornate bargeboards, and wall pendants at the eaves. A string course runs at floor level, and the quoins are stuccoed. The buildings are two storeys high with two window ranges, showcasing three-light casements that include glazing bars and flat brick arches. There are no ground floor windows at the front. Centrally located are a pair of doorways beneath a wide gabled porch. Above the doorways is a stone plaque inscribed with "Brook's Almshouse 1847 John Crotch Mayor." Brick chimney stacks are positioned at the gable ends, and there is a small single-storey wing at each end of the cottages.
Local climate
Brock's Almshouses sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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