The Woolpack Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1985. Public house. 5 related planning applications.

The Woolpack Public House

WRENN ID
errant-plinth-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 December 1985
Type
Public house
Address
The Woolpack Public House, Church Street, Wantage, OX12 8BL
OS grid reference
SU 397 878
Coordinates
51.58799, -1.42783
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Woolpack Public House is an early 18th-century house, later used as a public house, with a 19th-century bay added to the left and 18th-century extensions to the rear. The front is roughcast over brick, with a Welsh slate roof and a brick stack with a rendered base. Originally a two-unit building, it was later extended to an L-plan layout. The front has two storeys and originally two windows, later extended to three. A coved hood sits over a 20th-century door, adjoining an inserted 20th-century door, both flanked by sash windows in early 18th-century canted bays. A late 19th-century four-light fixed casement adjoins a blocked door with two matching overlights; a 19th-century sash window is above in the later left bay. Bracketed eaves are present. The roof is gabled with a large, stepped ridge stack at the top, featuring dog-toothed water tabling. A mid-18th century two-storey, three-window range to the rear is of random bond brick with a gabled roof covered in old tiles and a brick ridge stack. It has segmental arches over two 18th-century sash windows. A late 18th-century two-storey, one-bay range is set at a right angle to the left. The interior has a chamfered ground-floor beam, mostly concealed but likely of interest.

Local climate

The Woolpack Public House 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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