Miss Day's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Almshouses. 1 related planning application.
Miss Day's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- hidden-railing-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Miss Day's Almshouses, 71-87, Post Office Yard, Amersham, HP7 0DT
- OS grid reference
- SU 956 973
- Coordinates
- 51.66724, -0.61835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Miss Day's Almshouses, located at 71 to 87 (odd) Amersham High Street, were built in 1875. The building is constructed of red and grey brick and features a slate roof. At the center, there is a gable with a bargeboard and an inscribed tablet in a classical surround that commemorates John and Alice Day. These almshouses were established for six poor women of good character. The structure has nine sash windows on each floor, along with nine flush doors, all of which have segmental arches on the ground floor. Additionally, there are two casement windows at the southern end, next to No 69. Access to the almshouses is through an arch under No 69.
Local climate
Miss Day's Almshouses sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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