Wessex Home is a Grade II* listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1969. A Victorian Villa. 2 related planning applications.
Wessex Home
- WRENN ID
- worn-cobble-plum
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1969
- Type
- Villa
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Wessex Home, 22, Oxford Road, Newbury, RG14 1PA
- OS grid reference
- SU 468 677
- Coordinates
- 51.407, -1.32764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wessex Home is an early to mid-19th century villa, built after 1837. It stands two storeys tall and features a double-fronted design with three bays. The building has a hipped slate roof with rendered stacks and is constructed of stucco. The ground floor is rusticated, and the windows are architraved sash types with glazing bars. On the ground floor, there are French windows set in arched recesses. The entrance features an architraved doorway with panelled double doors. A cast-iron trellis verandah extends across part of the building, topped with a tented canopy.
Local climate
Wessex Home receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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