51-55, East 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. Houses. 4 related planning applications.
51-55, East St Helen Street
- WRENN ID
- deep-pillar-solstice
- 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
- Houses
- Address
- 51-55, East St Helen Street, Abingdon on Thames, OX14 5EE
- OS grid reference
- SU 497 968
- Coordinates
- 51.66852, -1.28246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 51 to 55 on East St Helen Street are two houses with origins dating back to the 17th century. They feature a repaired tile roof with four hipped dormers, and No. 51 has a modern casement window. The roof oversails, and No. 51 has a moulded wood cornice. The houses have four windows, with No. 51 having modern wood frames for its three-light casements, while the other windows have modern leaded glazing. The left-hand window is larger. The upper storey projects and is rough-rendered. No. 53 has a modern stone ground floor that is cut back, with two three-light leaded casements and a modern door. No. 51 has a rough-cast ground floor with three pilasters—two flanking the door on the right and one on the left—that support a wood band. It features a modern door, one three-light modern casement, and one two-light sliding sash window. Nos. 43 to 61 form a group.
Local climate
51-55, East 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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