78 and 80, Grove Street is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1985. Residential.
78 and 80, Grove Street
- WRENN ID
- nether-threshold-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1985
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- 78 and 80, Grove Street, Wantage
- OS grid reference
- SU 400 881
- Coordinates
- 51.59102, -1.42359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
78 and 80 Grove Street is a farmhouse that has been converted into two dwellings, dating from around 1700. The exterior features rendered walls and an old tile roof with brick stacks. The building has a three-unit lobby-entry plan and stands two storeys tall with a three-window range. The front includes a 20th-century door, a segmental arch over an early 18th-century sash window to the left, and 20th-century bay windows to the right. On the first floor, there is a late 19th-century three-light casement window to the left and two early 18th-century sash windows to the right. The roof is gabled with ridge stacks, and there is an early 18th-century five-light leaded casement window on the left side wall.
Inside, the property features early 18th-century two-panelled doors, a chalk stack, and stop-chamfered beams in the centre and right sections, along with a collar-truss to the right and original clasped purlins. No. 78, which is to the right, has an early 18th-century two-storey, two-window range constructed from similar materials, a gambrel roof, an external stack at the gable end, an early 18th-century six-panelled door, and 20th-century windows. A similar gabled wing at the rear has a late 19th-century door and two late 18th-century sash windows. The interior of No. 78 includes an original brick floor, mid-19th-century doors, and a staircase. To the rear left, there is a one-storey 18th-century brewhouse made of brick with a gabled stone slate roof, which adjoins an early 18th-century outshut on the left side wall of No. 78.
Local climate
78 and 80, Grove Street 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
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