Fair Mile Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. Hospital. 4 related planning applications.
Fair Mile Hospital
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-barrel-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1986
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Fair Mile Hospital, Reading Road, Cholsey
- OS grid reference
- SU 597 860
- Coordinates
- 51.56976, -1.13918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fair Mile Hospital is a lunatic asylum, now functioning as a hospital, which was built in 1870, as indicated by a carved panel above the main door. The architect was C.H. Howell, with additions made by G.T. Hind in 1898, along with some alterations and additions from the 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick, featuring some stone dressings and grey brick courses with decorative diapering. It has a complex Welsh slate roof with lead ridges and various red brick chimney stacks.
The hospital has a complex symmetrical plan and is three stories high, with an 18-window range and towers. The central entrance features a panelled door set within a stone Tudor archway that has carved trefoils in the spandrels. To the left, there is a prominent five-storey tower with a hipped roof. The central block has stone mullion windows, as well as mullion and transom windows, while the wings contain four-pane sash windows. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Fair Mile Hospital 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 4 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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