The Almshouses and Attached Walls and Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1988. Almshouse. 2 related planning applications.

The Almshouses and Attached Walls and Gate

WRENN ID
low-pier-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 February 1988
Type
Almshouse
Address
The Almshouses and Attached Walls and Gate, Church Street, Sutton Courtenay, OX14 4NJ
OS grid reference
SU 504 942
Coordinates
51.64521, -1.27206
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Almshouses, built in 1820, are located on Church Street in Sutton Courtenay. They feature a red brick plinth and grey brick with red brick dressings, topped with a slate hipped roof that has lead ridges. The structure is a single-storey, 13-bay range. The central bay has a round-arched recess with a keystone and stone impost blocks. To the left, there is a plank door, and to the right of the centre, there are two plank doors, all adorned with flat brick arches that have keystones. Each opening contains 16-pane unhorned sash windows, also with flat brick arches and keystones. The centre three bays have a shaped parapet, featuring a central plaque with pediment gables and flanking urns. The interiors have not been inspected.

To the left of the almshouses is an attached brick wall, while the front has stone coursed rubble walls and a brick wall to the right, creating a courtyard. This courtyard is accessed through a wrought-iron central gate with an overthrow, flanked by piers made of grey brick with red brick dressings. The inscribed panel on the building states, "These cottages were erected Anno Domini 1820, pursuant to the will of Francis Elderfield Esq., late of this parish, who endowed the same for ever for the maintenance of six poor widows, parishioners of Sutton Courtney."

Local climate

The Almshouses and Attached Walls and Gate 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 79% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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