The Almshouse Association and a team of almshouse architects have been working with Historic England over the last few years to see an almshouse guide for trustees and Historic Buildings Officers produced.
We are pleased to be able to inform our membership that they have now issued the draft Advice Note for managing change to historic almshouses and are looking forward to receiving your feedback.
Extract below from Historic England website:
Your chance to have a say on advice and guidance documents we’ve published in draft. Your feedback will help us make our advice and guidance useful.
Historic Almshouses: A Guide to Managing Change
This publication gives advice on managing change to historic almshouses. As a building type often of considerable age with a distinctive form generated by their use for housing elderly people, almshouses often have considerable historic and architectural significance. However, their use has subtly changed over time, the kind of residents changing and residents needing better, more contemporary, facilities. It is also essential that residents remain independent in their homes within almshouses for as long as possible.
This advice note suggests how historic and architectural significance can be retained while supplying more comfortable and appropriate housing.
Comments are welcomed on this draft advice note.
Guidance Team
posted 5 June 2023