Cobbled Courtyard at the Crown and Thistle Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1971. Courtyard.

Cobbled Courtyard at the Crown and Thistle Hotel

WRENN ID
odd-screen-poplar
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
Courtyard
Address
Cobbled Courtyard at the Crown and Thistle Hotel, Bridge Street, Abingdon on Thames
OS grid reference
SU 498 970
Coordinates
51.66966, -1.28034
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The cobbled courtyard at The Crown and Thistle Hotel features a half-timbered building with brick infill and a slate roof on its eastern side. To the south, there is a two-storey range of outbuildings constructed from rubble with tile roofs. This courtyard is part of a group that includes Roysse's Court, The Crown and Thistle Hotel, and Nos. 26 to 32 (even).

Local climate

Cobbled Courtyard at the Crown and Thistle Hotel 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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