Alton House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.

Alton House

WRENN ID
sharp-attic-mist
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
House
Address
Alton House, 29 and 31, Wallingford Street, Wantage, OX12 8AU
OS grid reference
SU 400 878
Coordinates
51.58838, -1.42381
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Alton House is a house built around 1730-1740, which was refronted around 1780. It features Flemish bond brickwork with flared headers and has an old and 20th-century tiled roof with brick stacks. The building is arranged in an L-shape and has two storeys with a three-window range. The entrance includes a late 18th-century six-panelled door with a decorative fanlight and a pedimented surround. There are gauged brick flat arches over tripartite sashes that flank the door, and stone lintels above the door and the flanking sashes. The house has a parapet and a gabled roof with gable end stacks.

To the rear right, there is a two-storey, two-window range that dates from the 18th century, rendered with a gabled old tile roof and a brick gable end stack. This section features a three-light leaded casement on the left side wall. Additionally, there is a one-storey and attic, two-window range at the rear, made of late 18th-century brick with a hipped old tile roof and a brick ridge stack. This part has segmental arches over late 19th-century two-light casements and a late 18th-century six-panelled door.

Inside, there are mid-18th-century panelled doors and a panelled room from around 1730-1740 with original cupboards flanking the fireplace in the front right room. The rear right section features a reset dog-leg staircase with a landing, dating from around 1730-1740, which has turned balusters on a closed string. A similar staircase leads to the attic, which includes plank doors with original fittings and a common-rafter roof.

Local climate

Alton 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
  • 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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