Old Town Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1958. Former market building. 5 related planning applications.
Old Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- vacant-lantern-saffron
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1958
- Type
- Former market building
- Address
- Old Town Hall, Market Place, Great Faringdon, SN7 7HU
- OS grid reference
- SU 288 955
- Coordinates
- 51.65825, -1.58388
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Town Hall is a late 17th century or early 18th century former market building located in Great Faringdon's Market Place. It features an open ground floor with a chamber above, which is now used as a library. The building has a hipped stone tiled roof topped with a plain iron weathercock and a deep bracketed eaves cornice. The first floor is roughcast and includes two glazing bar sash windows at each end and one on the south side. The ground floor is supported by stone Tuscan columns arranged in a 4 by 3 configuration, and the east side has piers with pilaster responds at the corners.
Local climate
Old Town Hall receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings