Nos. 1-10 Grays Alms Houses is a Grade I listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. A C17 Almshouses. 1 related planning application.
Nos. 1-10 Grays Alms Houses
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-dormer-storm
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Nos. 1-10 Grays Alms Houses, East Street, Taunton, TA1 3NA
- OS grid reference
- ST 230 245
- Coordinates
- 51.01474, -3.098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 1-10 Grays Alms Houses were founded by Robert Gray in 1015 for poor single women. This two-storey building features mostly new leaded casement windows, with few alterations overall. The front facing East Street is constructed of dark red brick and includes nine large chimney stacks with paired shafts set diagonally. It has ashlar dressings and a stone plinth, along with a weathered string course over the ground floor. The roof is covered with old tiles, and there is a square bell cupola topped with a weather vane. The building has three and two-light stone mullioned windows and three entrances, one of which has a tablet above it bearing the arms of Robert Gray, dated 1635, while another displays the arms of the Merchant Tailors. Access to the living quarters is provided by corridors along the back of each dwelling. A small room used as a chapel retains its original benches and painted ceiling. Nos. 1-10 Grays Alms Houses and Nos. 48 to 54 (consecutive) form a group.
Local climate
Nos. 1-10 Grays Alms Houses receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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