Fair Booth Approximately 500 Yards South East of Junction with Andover Road is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1993. Fair booth.
Fair Booth Approximately 500 Yards South East of Junction with Andover Road
- WRENN ID
- tattered-keystone-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 1993
- Type
- Fair booth
- OS grid reference
- SU 313 467
- Coordinates
- 51.21944, -1.55209
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fair booth located approximately 500 yards southeast of the junction with Andover Road. This former fair booth dates from the early 19th century and is constructed of flint with brick dressings, topped with a corrugated asbestos roof. It has a rectangular plan and is a single storey. The entrance is boarded up and flanked by windows that have horizontally set shutters; the lower leaves drop down to form a counter, while the upper leaves create a canopy. This booth is one of the few remaining structures from Weyhill Fair, which is recognized as one of the most significant historic fairs in the country, documented as early as 1225 and continuing until 1959. William Cobbett visited the fair multiple times and mentioned it in his work, Rural Rides. Thomas Hardy also featured Weyhill Fair in his novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge, renaming it Weydon Priors. The booth represents an important survival of permanent fair booths, which are a rare building type.
Local climate
Fair Booth Approximately 500 Yards South East of Junction with Andover Road receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% 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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