The Old Assembly Rooms is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1974. Assembly rooms. 1 related planning application.
The Old Assembly Rooms
- WRENN ID
- pitched-quartz-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1974
- Type
- Assembly rooms
- Address
- The Old Assembly Rooms, 16 and 18, Bell Street, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 2BG
- OS grid reference
- SU 760 827
- Coordinates
- 51.5381, -0.90466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Assembly Rooms, located at 16 and 18 Bell Street, is an early 19th-century building featuring a stucco facade with a pediment above. It stands two storeys tall and has three windows. The ground floor includes a central segmental carriage arch, with flat-headed doorways on either side. Doric pilasters are positioned at the outer corners of the ground floor, with an entablature above. On the first floor, there is a central Venetian window flanked by sash windows, all set within architrave surrounds. The outer corners of the first floor feature Ionic pilasters that support the entablature and pediment, which has an oval window in an architrave surround. The building is part of a group with Nos 16 to 26 (even) and Nos 15, 23, and 25 opposite.
Local climate
The Old Assembly Rooms sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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