Dining Hall and Cloister Walks is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Dining hall.

Dining Hall and Cloister Walks

WRENN ID
lost-niche-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 June 1987
Type
Dining hall
Address
Dining Hall and Cloister Walks, Radley
OS grid reference
SU 518 995
Coordinates
51.69231, -1.25126
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Dining Hall and Cloister Walks at St. Peter's College in Radley were built between 1893 and 1894, with later additions by Sir T.G. Jackson. The dining hall is constructed of English bond brick with limestone ashlar dressings and features a gabled roof covered with old tiles. It has a lateral stack made of banded brick and stone next to a bay window. The building is a single storey with a seven-bay range, designed in the Perpendicular style. A Tudor-arched doorway is located to the left of the center, with a tall bay window to the right that has stone mullioned and transomed windows. The other bays contain three-light and one two-light Perpendicular-style windows, framed by offset buttresses that have linking four-centred arches with brick and stone chequer work in the spandrels. The east gable wall features a large Perpendicular-style window. Inside, there is a tall panelled dado, a corbelled French-style fireplace, and a cusped tie-beam roof with traceried spandrels supporting the arch braces.

The cloisters are T-shaped and connect the west ends of the dining hall and chapel, with an arm linked to Radley Hall, using similar materials and standing two storeys high. Each bay is divided by offset buttresses, with one-light cusped windows above four-light Decorated-style windows. The nine-bay east wall includes a central gabled porch with a Tudor-arched doorway and a Decorated-style door at the rear.

Local climate

Dining Hall and Cloister Walks 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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