The Priory is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1988. A C17 House.
The Priory
- WRENN ID
- wild-panel-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Priory, the Street, Brightwell-Cum-Sotwell
- OS grid reference
- SU 584 906
- Coordinates
- 51.61203, -1.15662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Priory is a house located in Brightwell Cum Sotwell, dating from the early 17th century with a late 18th-century front facing the road. It is constructed of red brick featuring flared headers in Flemish bond, topped with an old plain-tile roof. The building has a brick ridge stack positioned to the left of center and an end stack with two diagonally set flues on the right.
The house is two stories high and has a two-window range. On the ground floor, there are three 16-pane unhorned sash windows with segmental brick heads, while the first floor has two similar 16-pane unhorned sashes also with segmental brick heads. The roof is adorned with two cross-gables.
On the left side of the building, there is substantial timber framing with angle braces and brick infill, creating a two-story, four-bay range. To the right, there is a porch with a four-panel part-glazed door. The right side of the house features 16-pane unhorned sashes on both the ground and first floors. Although the interior has not been inspected, it is likely to be of interest. There is a 20th-century addition to the right of the original structure.
Local climate
The Priory 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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