Roger's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1975. Alms house. 2 related planning applications.
Roger's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- twisted-obsidian-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1975
- Type
- Alms house
- Address
- Roger's Almshouses, 1-12, Belford Road, Harrogate, HG1 1HZ
- OS grid reference
- SE 304 549
- Coordinates
- 53.99007, -1.53777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Roger's Almshouses, built around 1868, are designed in the Gothic style and consist of two storeys arranged around three sides of a courtyard, with a clock tower projecting from the center of the inner side. The buildings feature slated roofs with coped gables and a bracketed eaves course that carries the gutter. The exterior is made of rusticated grit stone ashlar, with a string course at the first floor level. Each house has two-light casement windows, and the first-floor windows are gabled with trefoil heads. The ground floor windows have splayed reveals. The doorways are recessed and have simple bracketed hoods, fanlights, and boarded doors. The four-storey clock tower has a pyramidical roof and gabled clock faces, with loops on each floor except the ground floor, which features a two-light window in an arched recess with a carved tympanum and the inscription 'George Rogers, 1868' above a hood mould. There is also a bronze bust of Rogers on a bracket above the ground floor window. Nos 1 to 12 Roger's Almshouses form a cohesive group.
Local climate
Roger's Almshouses receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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