Cloister and Upper Dormitory,Octagon and Schoolroom is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Educational. 1 related planning application.
Cloister and Upper Dormitory,Octagon and Schoolroom
- WRENN ID
- young-copper-yarrow
- 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
- Educational
- Address
- Cloister and Upper Dormitory,Octagon and Schoolroom, Radley, OX14 2HT
- OS grid reference
- SU 518 996
- Coordinates
- 51.69282, -1.25162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cloister and Upper Dormitory, Octagon, and Schoolroom at St. Peter's College in Radley are mid-19th century structures, with significant work completed in 1891 by Sir T.G. Jackson. They are built from Flemish bond brick with terracotta dressings and a string course, topped with a gabled 20th-century tile roof and featuring a brick rear lateral stack. Designed in a late Gothic style, the buildings are two stories high and have a symmetrical nine-window range. The ground floor includes a moulded terracotta doorway and two-light windows with traceried heads and angel stops on the hood moulds, along with offset buttresses and a crenellated parapet.
To the front left, there is a right-angled range with a similar three-window layout and finials on three gables. The left side features a gable end from an older dormitory range built in 1849, which includes a three-storey bay window and two-light windows. The Octagon, constructed in 1859, is made of chequer brick and has a pyramidal 20th-century tile roof. It stands three stories tall, with each face showcasing two trefoil-headed lights above Tudor-style stone-mullioned two-light windows on the ground and first floors.
At the rear of the cloister walk, there are three gabled bays of an early 19th-century brick building that features sash windows and a circular stair turret. A small two-storey wing with pointed windows extends from the back of this building. Additionally, there is a late 16th or early 17th-century barn located at the rear left, constructed with heavy timber framing and brick infill, also topped with a gabled 20th-century tile roof and an eight-bay queen-post roof. This barn was rebuilt with additions in 1848 to create the current schoolroom.
Local climate
Cloister and Upper Dormitory,Octagon and Schoolroom 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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