Boxford House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1983. House. 7 related planning applications.
Boxford House
- WRENN ID
- mired-buttress-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Boxford House, Newbury, RG20 8DP
- OS grid reference
- SU 429 714
- Coordinates
- 51.44071, -1.38341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Boxford House is a rectory that has been converted into a private house, dating from around 1825. It is constructed of Bath stone ashlar and features slate roofs in a Tudor Gothic style. The building has two storeys and an attic.
The north front consists of six bays with mullioned and transomed windows that have hood moulds and a plain parapet. The two left-hand bays project slightly, with a rectangular bay window on the ground floor to the left, featuring an embattled parapet and three trefoil leaded lights. To the right, there is a porch with diagonal buttresses and a parapet adorned with corner pinnacles and a carved crest. The depressed archway leads to a doorway of similar style with a matching door. Above, there are two first-floor windows to the left with ogee tracered lights and carved stops on the hood moulds. A parapeted gable with a finial is positioned above the left-hand window. Additionally, there are circular windows in two parapeted gables over the far right-hand bays, and a two-storey canted bay with an embattled parapet to the left.
The south front also has six bays, with the three bays on the right being slightly higher and featuring an embattled parapet. This side includes cross windows and a ground floor canted bay with an embattled parapet to the right, along with three bays to the left that contain a door and a plain parapet. The building has seven stacks with moulded caps, although some have been removed.
Inside, there is a double-height entrance hall with a bracketed landing and staircase. The ground floor rooms have panelled ceilings with moulded bosses and cornices. There are three fireplaces on the ground floor, each with depressed arches and panelled sides, along with corbelled mantelpieces that feature carved heads. A large Gothick arch recess is present in the wall of the old dining room. The south-east wing, added around 1920, is noted as being of no special interest.
Local climate
Boxford House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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