2, West St Helen Street is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. House.
2, West St Helen Street
- WRENN ID
- sharp-eave-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 2, West St Helen Street, Abingdon on Thames
- OS grid reference
- SU 496 970
- Coordinates
- 51.66991, -1.28289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 West St Helen Street is an early 19th-century building that stands three storeys tall. It is constructed of blue brick with red brick dressings and features a tiled roof. The building has a brick modillion eaves cornice and red brick bands between the storeys. There are two windows with red brick rusticated architraves, double hung sashes, and glazing bars. The corners of the building are accented with red brick rusticated quoins, and it has a stone plinth. At the ground level, there are two small shop windows with modern glass set in bolection moulded architraves, along with plain double doors. This building is part of a group that includes Nos. 2 and 4 and Lombard House on Lombard Street.
Local climate
2, West St Helen Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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