Numbers 1 to 8 Stiles Court is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1950. Almshouses. 2 related planning applications.
Numbers 1 to 8 Stiles Court
- WRENN ID
- moated-oriel-khaki
- 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
- Almshouses
- Address
- Numbers 1 to 8 Stiles Court, Newbury Street, Wantage, OX12 8DN
- OS grid reference
- SU 398 876
- Coordinates
- 51.58591, -1.42631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 1 to 8 Stiles Court are almshouses built in 1680 for Robert Stile. They are constructed of Flemish bond brick with flared headers and feature a 20th-century tile roof and brick stacks. The buildings are arranged in a courtyard plan and consist of one storey with an attic, forming a five-bay range. The central projecting bay has a semi-circular arch with a decorative keystone above a 20th-century door. A segmental pedimented datestone reads, "The Gift of/ Mr Robert Stile/ of Amsterdam/ Merchant who/ died October/ Y 3rd Anno Domini/ 1680." There are gauged brick flat arches over 2-light leaded casements with shutters. The structure has a chamfered plinth, a gauged brick moulded cornice, and 20th-century hipped dormers. The hipped roof features ridge stacks. The left side wall has a three-window range with gauged brick flat arches over 20th-century casements, while the rear wall has a similar five-window range with moulded wood architrave framing the central doorway. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Numbers 1 to 8 Stiles Court 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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