Helyar Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Almshouse. 3 related planning applications.
Helyar Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- western-merlon-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Helyar Almshouses, 1-12, East Coker
- OS grid reference
- ST 539 122
- Coordinates
- 50.90831, -2.65658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A terrace of 12 almshouses in East Coker, founded in 1640 and largely rebuilt during the early 19th century. The houses are constructed with local stone and ham stone dressings, featuring fish-scale clay tiles and stone ridges between coped gables. Stone and reconstructed stone chimney stacks are also present. The houses are arranged in groups of two, each having a single storey with an attic and one bay. They have hollow chamfered mullioned windows with steel opening casements, leaded with diamond panes; the windows have three lights on the lower level and two lights above, with a continuous label over the lower lights and individual gables above the upper lights. Cambered arch, chamfered doorways are set in pairs between the windows, with stone steps leading up to the northernmost cottages. An old stone sett footpath runs along the front of the terrace. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
Helyar Almshouses receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 7 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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