Formerly the Air Balloon Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 2000. Public house.

Formerly the Air Balloon Public House

WRENN ID
white-granite-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 2000
Type
Public house
Address
Formerly the Air Balloon Public House, 169, Ock Street, Abingdon on Thames
OS grid reference
SU 489 969
Coordinates
51.66938, -1.29349
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building, formerly known as The Air Balloon public house, is a public house dating from the early 19th century, with an extension added around the 1830s. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring vitrified headers, and has Welsh slate roofs. The east range has a hipped roof with a brick dentil eaves course, while the west range is gable-ended. There are brick axial stacks.

The layout consists of a two-room plan for the early 19th century range on the left, which was extended by the addition of a taller block on the right around the 1830s. The exterior of the left range is two stories high with two windows. The ground floor has a central doorway with a small canopy supported by shaped brackets, flanked by tripartite sashes with glazing bars. On the first floor, there are two smaller windows with cambered brick arches. The right range is taller, featuring two stories and an attic with one window. It has a band at the first floor level, large 16-pane sashes, and a small gabled dormer with a 6-pane sash. The right-hand return has a bowed window on the ground floor, a first-floor band, a 16-pane sash on the first floor, and a small gabled attic dormer with a 6-pane sash. All windows are boarded over, except for the dormer window. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Formerly the Air Balloon Public House 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 78% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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