The Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1958. Almshouse.
The Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- fallen-crypt-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1958
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- The Almshouses, Church Street, Donyatt
- OS grid reference
- ST 339 140
- Coordinates
- 50.922, -2.94131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Almshouses are a group of six almshouses arranged in a row, dated 1624, and restored in the 19th and 20th centuries. They are constructed from ham stone ashlar and feature an undulating plain clay tiled roof with high coped gables that suggest a former thatch. The building includes yellow and red brick chimney stacks.
The almshouses are two storeys high with six bays. There is a continuous string course between the floors, and the windows are hollow-chamfered mullioned types set in chamfered recesses, lacking labels. The windows consist of two-light units above and three-light units below, all with diamond leaded panes. To the right of bays one, two, and four, and to the left of bays three, five, and six, there are chamfered cambered arched doorways with deep lintels, featuring 20th-century panelled doors. Additional mullioned windows are present in the end gables, and there is a plaque set high on the west gable that describes the gift of the almshouses, although the date is not discernible.
Local climate
The Almshouses receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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