The Chestnuts is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. Residential.
The Chestnuts
- WRENN ID
- fallow-courtyard-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- The Chestnuts, 17, High Street, Shrivenham
- OS grid reference
- SU 241 889
- Coordinates
- 51.59906, -1.65267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chestnuts is a 17th-century building located on the south side of Shrivenhall High Street. It is constructed of colourwashed rubble stone with brick dressings and features a gabled stone tiled roof. The west side wall has a stone stack with set offs and a brick cap. The north front has two storeys and three bays, with eight-pane sash windows in the upper section. The right-hand ground floor window also has a similar sash, while the central bay features a polygonal glazed bow. To the left, there is a panelled and glazed door.
Local climate
The Chestnuts receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 1 transaction since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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