Hickman's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1952. Almshouses. 1 related planning application.

Hickman's Almshouses

WRENN ID
graven-zinc-twilight
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 April 1952
Type
Almshouses
Address
Hickman's Almshouses, 16, Church Street, Aylesbury, HP20 2QS
OS grid reference
SP 817 138
Coordinates
51.81738, -0.81561
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hickman's Almshouses, located at 16 Church Street, were founded in 1695 and rebuilt in 1871, as noted on a stone tablet on the front. This building is two storeys high and constructed of red and vitreous brick with a tile roof in the Gothic style. The design features an unsymmetrical arrangement with a triple-gabled front facing Parsons Fee, along with elaborate romantic chimneys that have clustered diagonal shafts and corbelled and shaped heads. The windows are three and four-light casements, and the doors are topped with moulded brick arches. The almshouses are included for their historical significance and somewhat picturesque value. They form a group with Nos 8 to 12 (even) and No 16.

Local climate

Hickman's Almshouses receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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