Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. Almshouses.
Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- lone-corridor-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Almshouses, Woodlands End, Mells
- OS grid reference
- ST 729 489
- Coordinates
- 51.2387, -2.3882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This pair of almshouses dates from the 17th century and was restored in the 20th century. They are constructed from Doulting rubble with dressed quoins and feature a hipped tile roof adorned with a decorated ridge course, along with restored brick stacks. The building is rectangular, two stories high, and has ten bays. It includes two-light reserved chamfer stone mullioned windows with iron frames and leaded lights, some of which have 18th-century latches and quadrants. The door openings in the third and eighth bays are framed by edge roll moulded stone surrounds with stopped labels and have plank doors. There is a blank stone plaque located in the center of the first floor.
Local climate
Almshouses receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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