Town Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1988. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
Town Arms Public House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-iron-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1988
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Town Arms Public House, 102, High Street, Wallingford, OX10 0BL
- OS grid reference
- SU 609 894
- Coordinates
- 51.60105, -1.12145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Arms Public House is a public house located on the north side of High Street in Wallingford. It dates from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building features lined render, likely on brick at the ground floor, and roughcast, probably on timber framing at the first floor. It has a mid-20th century plain-tile roof and various brick stacks. The structure is two storeys tall with an attic and has a three-window range.
On the ground floor, there is a four-panel part-glazed door to the left and a two-panel part-glazed door at an angled corner to the right. The central window is a three-light wood mullioned window with long lights and glazing bars. To the left and right, there are four-pane segmental headed unhorned sashes. A three-light window is located at the eaves in the centre. The left and right sides also have 20th-century windows with glazing bars. On the first floor, there are three 12-pane segmental headed unhorned sashes, and the left gable end features a four-pane unhorned sash, while the right gable end has two 12-pane segmental headed unhorned sashes. Inside, timber framing is visible.
Local climate
Town Arms Public House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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