The Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1988. Almshouse. 1 related planning application.
The Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- fallen-parapet-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1988
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- The Almshouses, 1 and 2, Lamyatt, BA4 6NL
- OS grid reference
- ST 654 358
- Coordinates
- 51.12107, -2.49573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Almshouses are a pair of semi-detached almshouses built in 1884. They are constructed from coursed and squared rubble with dressed quoins, and the left return is rendered. The buildings feature a tile roof with moulded copings at the verges and a large central ashlar stack. Designed in a Gothic style, they are two storeys high with an attic and consist of one and a half bays.
On the first floor, there are three-light cusped stone-mullioned windows with iron casements and square-paned leaded lights. The ground floor has large canted ashlar bays, cornices, parapets, and copings, with windows featuring 1:2:1 lights and cusped iron casement leaded lights. Each return has a door opening with moulded stone surrounds that have a three-centred head and ribbed doors. A central inscription panel with an ornamental surround and cresting is also present.
Local climate
The Almshouses receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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