53, Bath Street is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1971. Residential.
53, Bath Street
- WRENN ID
- knotted-bailey-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1971
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- 53, Bath Street, Abingdon on Thames
- OS grid reference
- SU 495 973
- Coordinates
- 51.67253, -1.28455
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 Bath Street is a building dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century, constructed of chequered brick. It features a red brick parapet with a dentil cornice that conceals a hipped tile roof. The building stands three storeys tall and has three windows with flat arches, double-hung sashes, and glazing bars. On the second floor, there are keystones to the voussoirs, with the central keystone being carved. There is a plain doorway at the side with a panelled door and a rectangular fanlight. To the left, there is a three-storey chequered extension with a slate roof and a gable facing the road. This extension has one window with a segmental arch and a two-light sash. It also features a four-panel door and a three-light sash window beneath a slate pentice roof, which is gabled and includes carved barge-boarding and a trellis porch. Nos. 47 to 61 (odd) form a group with this building.
Local climate
53, Bath Street 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 19 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings