Priors Hold is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1950. House. 1 related planning application.
Priors Hold
- WRENN ID
- still-vestry-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Priors Hold, Priory Road, Wantage, OX12 9DD
- OS grid reference
- SU 396 878
- Coordinates
- 51.58824, -1.42943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priors Hold is a house dating from the late 17th century, with a one-bay extension added to the right in the mid 19th century. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick featuring flared headers and has a 20th-century tiled roof with brick stacks. The building has a four-unit plan and stands two storeys high, with a four-window range. The entrance is marked by a pedimented surround that is interrupted by a fanlight above a six-panelled door. There are gauged brick flat arches over the sash windows, and a timber lintel with a segmental header arch above the mid 19th-century horned sashes in the right bay. A moulded brick string course runs along the façade. The roof is gabled with ridge stacks, and there are two roughcast wings at the rear, each with gabled 20th-century tiled roofs. The interior has not been inspected but is noted to have panelled rooms.
Local climate
Priors Hold receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- 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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