Number 2 and Attached Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1969. House. 3 related planning applications.
Number 2 and Attached Wall
- WRENN ID
- ancient-pediment-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1969
- Type
- House
- Address
- Number 2 and Attached Wall, Priory Road, Wantage, OX12 9DE
- OS grid reference
- SU 396 879
- Coordinates
- 51.58859, -1.42922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-18th century house, remodelled and extended in the early to mid-19th century. It is built of Flemish bond brick, with a section of random bond brick to the left side wall and flared brick headers to the right side wall. The roof is tiled, with brick stacks. The house has a double-depth plan and is two storeys and an attic, with a three-window front. The front door has a reeded architrave and is made up of three panels with a glazed top panel, and is set within a porch dated approximately 1965. The early 19th-century windows have soldier arches and a coved 18th-century cornice above them. The windows are three-light transomed with cusped heads. There's an 18th-century gabled dormer with a two-light leaded casement. The roof is gabled to the left and half-hipped to the right, with a gable end stack on the left and a ridge stack. The rear of the house, dating to the early 19th century, features gauged brick cambered arches over horned sashes, a French window with bordered lights and shutters, and a glazed door with overlight. A wrought iron verandah and balcony are present on the first-floor windows. Inside, there are 18th-century six-panelled doors. The hall has mid-18th-century Doric entablatures to broken pediments over doors, and an early 19th-century straight-run staircase with a wreathed handrail. Early 19th-century fireplaces and cornices are also present; a blocked doorway in the centre of the right side wall has a mid-18th-century china closet in the adjacent wall. There’s a similar pedimented doorway and a mid-18th-century fireplace with a shouldered architrave on the first floor. Winder stairs lead to the attic, which contains a mid-18th-century round-headed panelled cupboard door and a common-rafter roof. Attached to the rear right and flanking a lane is a mid-18th-century brick wall of random bond construction, divided into 10 panels by pilaster buttresses. Each panel has a stepped plinth and a dogtooth cornice beneath a tiled coping.
Local climate
Number 2 and Attached Wall 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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