Forbes Almhouses is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. A Victorian Almshouses.
Forbes Almhouses
- WRENN ID
- high-gateway-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Forbes Almhouses, 1-5, Church Street, East Meon, East Hampshire, GU32 1NH
- OS grid reference
- SU 680 221
- Coordinates
- 50.99508, -1.03229
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forbes Almhouses are a group of almshouses built in 1852. They feature walls made of knapped flints with Bath stone dressings, including a plinth, quoins, a first-floor band, and moulded mullion and transom windows set within plain frames. The gables have moulded cornices and pediments supported by brackets, topped with ball finials on the half-dormers and upper parts of the chimney stacks. The roof is tiled.
The terrace consists of four units, with one unit projecting forward at the north end. The front elevation faces east and has gables on each side, with a total of one and a half storeys and a window arrangement of 1.2.1. The windows are casements. There are stone classical doorcases, with two coupled doorways at Nos 1 and 2, and single doorways at Nos 3 and 4, all featuring pediments and simple pilasters, with plain openings and 20th-century panelled doors.
The north elevation, which includes the doorway at No 1, has two windows spaced wider on the west side. The south elevation has one window and a single doorway at No 5 on the east side. The rear elevation for Nos 1, 3, 4, and 5 is symmetrical but simpler, with gables on each side and a window arrangement of 1.2.1. There is also a continuous service block along the west side of the rear yard. The coupled doorways have a shield within the pediment and an inscription above Nos 3 and 4.
Local climate
Forbes Almhouses receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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