Sir Walter Montague Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 December 1950. Almshouse.
Sir Walter Montague Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- seventh-chapel-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1950
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Sir Walter Montague Almshouses, Chepstow
- OS grid reference
- ST 534 940
- Coordinates
- 51.64293, -2.67347
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Sir Walter Montague Almshouses are a 17th-century range of almshouses. The walls are roughcast rendered and painted, topped with a slate roof featuring tall rendered square stacks with clustered pots. The building consists of three two-storey houses, each with five gables that have short finials and eaves projecting between them, along with decorative bargeboards. Each gable has one window, while the ground floor has seven windows, which are either 3-light or 2-light leaded diamond-pane casements. These windows have wooden frames with metal casements and moulded wooden mullions beneath hoodmoulds. The entrance features a square-headed doorway with a heavy moulded door frame and a vertically panelled door adorned with ornamental iron hinges. The almshouses also have a painted plinth.
Local climate
Sir Walter Montague Almshouses receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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