Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1970. Town hall. 12 related planning applications.
Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- last-hall-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1970
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Town Hall, High Street, Thame, OX9 3DP
- OS grid reference
- SP 706 059
- Coordinates
- 51.74765, -0.97838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, built in 1887 by H.J. Tollit, features a free style design and is located on Thame High Street. It is constructed from red brick with stone dressings and has a slate roof with brick lateral stacks. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a three-window main front facing north-west. The central entrance consists of segmental-headed double part-glazed doors topped by a moulded stone segmental-arched head. On either side, there are single-light casements and casements with stone and brick relieving arches above.
The façade is enhanced by attached stone Ionic columns that support an inscribed panel between the ground and first floor, and all window openings feature three-light stone mullion windows. The ground and first floor windows on the left and right have horned sashes and segmental brick and stone relieving arches. Brick pilaster strips with flat stone banding frame the central windows on the first floor and attic, with stone panels positioned between the first floor and attic windows.
The attic is topped with an open pediment gable that includes a four-centre arched attic window breaking into the tympanum, flanked by stone half-obelisks. A clock turret with a lead spire is located at the apex of the building. The side elevations are two-storey with four-window ranges, featuring three-storey-and-attic staircase bays at one end. These elevations include arcades of four-centred arched windows and stone mullion windows in the staircase bays. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Town Hall 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 12 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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