The Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. A Victorian Almshouse.
The Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-solder-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- Almshouse
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- The Almshouses, North Street, Midhurst, Chichester
- OS grid reference
- SU 887 219
- Coordinates
- 50.99034, -0.7367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Almshouses are a building with a late 16th century foundation that was rebuilt in 1840. It is designed in an early Victorian Tudor Gothic style and constructed from stone with a tiled roof. The structure is one storey high with an attic and features casement windows, along with two doorways that have four-centred arches and dripmoulds above. There are four windows and four gable dormers. Inscriptions in Gothic lettering are located above the doorways, stating 'Erected AD 1578 Restored AD 1840'.
Local climate
The Almshouses receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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