Nos 1-3, Twittys Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. Almshouses. 1 related planning application.
Nos 1-3, Twittys Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- peeling-moulding-rain
- 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
- Almshouses
- Address
- Nos 1-3, Twittys Almshouses, St Helens Churchyard, Abingdon, Abingdon on Thames, OX14 5EH
- OS grid reference
- SU 496 967
- Coordinates
- 51.66767, -1.28332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Twitty's Almshouses, built in 1707, is a single-storey red brick building founded by Charles Twitty, who was the deputy auditor of the Receipt of Exchequer in Westminster. The building features a modillion eaves cornice and a central pediment topped with a ball finial and weathervane. It has a hipped roof with an attractive square-plan glazed lantern. The entrance includes a panelled door and a four-light casement window with glazing bars and brick gauged voussoirs. Twitty's Almshouses is part of a group that includes Long Alley Almshouses, Brick Alley Almshouses, and the Church of St Helen.
Local climate
Nos 1-3, Twittys Almshouses 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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