Vale and Downland Museum Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1969. Museum centre.
Vale and Downland Museum Centre
- WRENN ID
- ghost-pediment-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1969
- Type
- Museum centre
- Address
- Vale and Downland Museum Centre, 19, Church Street, Wantage
- OS grid reference
- SU 397 878
- Coordinates
- 51.58811, -1.42824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Vale and Downland Museum Centre is a house that dates back to the 17th century and was remodeled around 1780 by Lawrence Hazell, as indicated by the datestone above the first-floor window. Originally, it featured a timber-framed structure with square timber framing and wattle and daub infill on the side and rear right. The exterior is finished in Flemish bond brick with flared headers, topped by an old tile roof and a brick stack. The building has an original three-unit lobby-entry plan and stands two storeys tall with a four-window range.
A late 19th-century gabled porch, which is timber-framed with herringbone brick infill, is present, although the door has been blocked and the current entry is located in a 20th-century extension to the left. There is a two-light leaded window in the left side wall, and gauged brick flat arches adorn the late 18th-century sashes and three mid-19th-century horned sashes to the left. The roof is half-hipped with a ridge stack, and there are 20th-century extensions to the left and rear.
Inside, the room to the right features a chamfered and stopped beam, original joists, and a chamfered bressumer above a chalk open fireplace. There is also a collar-truss with clasped purlins to the right.
Local climate
Vale and Downland Museum Centre 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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