58 and 60, East St Helen Street is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1971. Malthouse. 5 related planning applications.
58 and 60, East St Helen Street
- WRENN ID
- brooding-barrel-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1971
- Type
- Malthouse
- Address
- 58 and 60, East St Helen Street, Abingdon on Thames, OX14 5EB
- OS grid reference
- SU 497 967
- Coordinates
- 51.66765, -1.28239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 58 and 60 on East St Helen Street is a two-storey building with attics, originally built in chequered brick, though parts have been renewed. The date 1748 is marked on No. 60. The gable end faces the road and features a small window. The ground floor is made of rubble, with a blocked window set in a brick rusticated architrave. There is a flat carriage arch with a loading door above it and two light ventilation windows to the left, indicating it has been used for storage.
No. 60 has a stone plinth and a tile roof, with some windows rebuilt. It has three casement windows with leaded lights set in brick architraves. The first-floor windows have brick labels, while only the small window on the ground floor to the right has a label. A modern door is framed by a moulded brick architrave featuring three brick keystones and a carved semi-circular hood.
At the rear, the right-hand section of No. 60 has a tile roof with two modern brick chimneys on carved brackets. This section is one storey with attics and is built of rubble. It features a canted oriel window facing the river, which has a keystone and pilaster ornament, and three lights. Above this is a four-light mullion window with a moulded cornice and lead glazed casements. The street elevation has four windows, with the two on the left having drip-moulds above a six-light transom and mullion, along with stone tracery in the head. The building has likely undergone significant restoration, including a restored three-light window under a moulded cornice and a two-light window with tracery in the head, which may be original 15th-century work. Inside, there is a balustered gallery at the first-floor level, which was part of the malthouse operated by John Tomkins in 1748.
Nos. 2 to 60 (even) form a group.
Local climate
58 and 60, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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