Racquets Court is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. A Victorian Sports facility.
Racquets Court
- WRENN ID
- half-dormer-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Sports facility
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Racquets Court, Radley
- OS grid reference
- SU 519 996
- Coordinates
- 51.69289, -1.2501
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Racquets Court is a building constructed around 1885, located at St. Peter's College in Radley. It is built of English bond brick and features a low-pitched hipped roof covered with Welsh slate, topped with a glass lantern. The structure is one storey high and has a five-bay range. A gabled porch is situated in the end wall, which includes a round window above a pointed-arched doorway that is set within a segmental-arched surround with imposts. This doorway is flanked by segmental-arched windows. The side walls have sunk panels in each bay, with pierced stone ventilation holes above and below blind lancets that have thin stone imposts. Inside, there is a staircase leading to a viewing gallery. The construction cost was £964. Racquets was first played in Fleet prison around 1816 and gained popularity in the army and public schools from the mid-19th century, with 12 courts from the 1860s still existing in public schools.
Local climate
Racquets Court 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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