56, Bath Street is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1971. Residential. 2 related planning applications.
56, Bath Street
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-sandstone-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1971
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- 56, Bath Street, Abingdon on Thames, OX14 1EB
- OS grid reference
- SU 495 972
- Coordinates
- 51.67189, -1.28451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century building on the west side of Bath Street. It is constructed of chequered brick with a tile roof, which includes a single gabled dormer window. The building has a dentil eaves cornice and is two storeys high with attics. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars, set within a wood architrave, and are surrounded by red brick voussoirs. A brick band runs between the two storeys. There is a similar window on the ground floor. The building has a rendered plinth. The front door is made of six panels and is sheltered by a simple hood supported by brackets. Nos. 56 to 64 (even), including Coxeter's Furniture Depository, form a group.
Local climate
56, Bath Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 2 transactions since 2006
- 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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