The Almshouses is a Grade II* listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1966. A Late Stuart Almshouses. 4 related planning applications.
The Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-corbel-falcon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1966
- Type
- Almshouses
- Period
- Late Stuart
- Address
- The Almshouses, Main Street, Burneston, DL8 2HY
- OS grid reference
- SE 308 849
- Coordinates
- 54.2594, -1.52868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Almshouses, now two cottages and a schoolroom, were built in 1680. They are constructed from coursed rubblestone and red brick, featuring ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has seven bays. It has a rubblestone plinth with chamfered ashlar coping that reaches the height of the ground-floor windows, and ashlar quoins at the corners.
In bays two and five, there are board doors set in quoined surrounds with four-centred arched lintels. Above each door is an ashlar tablet within a moulded surround; the left tablet has a Latin inscription and the date 1680, while the right tablet displays a coat of arms. Above both doors is an elliptical window framed in stone. The other bays feature two-light rendered brick mullion windows with various types of casements. The ground-floor outer and central windows have moulded brick segmental pediments, while the remaining windows have triangular brick pediments.
To the right of bay seven, there is a stone sundial with an inscription beneath it. Each end of the building has an external gable stack, with four circular windows in square stone surrounds, two on each floor. The structure also includes shaped kneelers and stone copings, along with one large brick ridge stack. The Almshouses were established by Matthew Robinson, the Vicar of Burneston and owner of Allerthorpe Hall.
Local climate
The Almshouses receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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