Volunteer Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Volunteer Inn
- WRENN ID
- watchful-lancet-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Volunteer Inn, 2, Gloucester Street, Great Faringdon, SN7 7HY
- OS grid reference
- SU 288 955
- Coordinates
- 51.65819, -1.58502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Volunteer Inn is a mid-18th century roughcast house located on the north side of Gloucester Street in Great Faringdon. It stands two stories high with an attic and features a modern tile roof, end wall stacks, and two gabled dormers. The building has a wood modillion eaves cornice and a five-window range of exposed box glazing bar sash windows. The ground floor window at the west end has been replaced with a later three-light casement. The entrance door is adorned with a moulded wooden hood supported by large ornate scrolled brackets. The west end wall is constructed of rubble stone with brick angles.
Local climate
Volunteer Inn receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2008
- 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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