Ashdown House, Pavilion Approximately 20 Metres North East is a Grade I listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1952. A C.1662 Pavilion.

Ashdown House, Pavilion Approximately 20 Metres North East

WRENN ID
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Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1952
Type
Pavilion
OS grid reference
SU 282 820
Coordinates
51.5365, -1.59444
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ashdown House Pavilion, located approximately 20 metres northeast of Ashdown House, was built around 1662. It features imitation stone render with limestone dressings and quoins, and has a stone slate roof with limestone stacks. The original five-by-one bay plan has been significantly altered and is not clearly visible. The pavilion is one and a half storeys high with a five-window range.

The front elevation facing Ashdown House includes a central six-panelled late 19th-century door framed by a limestone eared architrave, a semi-circular arch with a raised key, and a decorative fanlight. It has four-light wood-mullioned and transomed casements with 20th-century plate glass and limestone eared architraves, along with four gabled dormers featuring moulded cornices and 20th-century casements.

The rear elevation mirrors the front with similar windows in a five-window layout and three raised central dormers. The south gable end has a blind door with a limestone eared architrave, a pulvinated frieze, and a moulded cornice. Additional architectural details include a moulded plinth, raised and chamfered quoins, a dentilled wood cornice, and a hipped roof topped with a bell cupola, along with end stacks that have moulded caps.

The interior has been gutted by fire and was converted into housekeeper's accommodation in the mid-20th century.

Local climate

Ashdown House, Pavilion Approximately 20 Metres North East receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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