Long Alley Almshouses is a Grade I listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. A Medieval Almshouse. 10 related planning applications.
Long Alley Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- weathered-plaster-hawk
- Grade
- I
- 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
- Almshouse
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Long Alley Almshouses, West St Helen Street, Abingdon on Thames, OX14 5EJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 496 967
- Coordinates
- 51.66716, -1.2833
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Long Alley Almshouses were built by the Fraternity of the Holy Cross in 1446. This row of single-storey stone buildings features the Guildhall in the centre and has brick stacks. In front, there is a long oak cloister walk dating from around 1500, which was enhanced by three elaborate 17th-century porches with painted panels created by Sampson Strong of Oxford in 1605. At the same time, the Hall was panelled, and a stone mullioned bay window was added to the garden side, along with a fine octagonal lantern on the hall roof, which was repaired in 1707. Long Alley Almshouses, along with Twitty's Almshouses, Brick Alley Almshouses, and the Church of St Helen, form a cohesive group.
Local climate
Long Alley 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 — 10 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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