The Governors House is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1993. A Victorian Government building, villa. 1 related planning application.
The Governors House
- WRENN ID
- under-loggia-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1993
- Type
- Government building, villa
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- The Governors House, New Road, OX1 1LT
- OS grid reference
- SP 510 061
- Coordinates
- 51.75183, -1.26256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Governor's House, now a staff mess, is an asymmetrical Gothick villa built in 1848 by Benjamin Ferry. It features three storeys and a basement, with the entrance front displaying three storeys and one bay. To the right, there is a recessed entrance bay and a further recessed two-storey bay. The entrance is approached by steps leading to a timber porch with a slated roof, which has a carved shield above. The Tudor-arched panelled door includes three multifoil panels that bear shields. To the left of the entrance, there is a small three-light oriel window supported by a carved female head corbel. The building also has three and two pointed-light windows with hoodmoulds, and a cruciform arrow slit located at the second floor above the entrance. The crenellated parapet features machicolations to the left of the entrance. Inside, there is an open well staircase with open-string design, column newels, stick balusters, and pendants.
Local climate
The Governors House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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