The Potters is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1988. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
The Potters
- WRENN ID
- solemn-string-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Potters, Burr Street, Harwell, OX11 0DT
- OS grid reference
- SU 493 894
- Coordinates
- 51.60157, -1.28864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Potters is a house dating from the early 17th century. It features large timber framing with painted brick infill on the ground floor and rendered infill on the first floor, topped with a hipped thatched roof. There is a brick ridge stack located to the left of center and an end stack to the left. The building is two stories high and has a four-bay range that runs at right angles to the street. A plank door is situated to the right, and the windows are an irregular arrangement of casements. At the rear, there is a bay window on the ground floor to the left, which has ovolo-moulded mullions. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Potters 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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