Holloways Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1970. A Victorian Almshouses. 1 related planning application.
Holloways Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- spare-column-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1970
- Type
- Almshouses
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Holloways Almshouses, 2-10, Station Road, Witney, OX28 4BA
- OS grid reference
- SP 356 092
- Coordinates
- 51.78107, -1.48469
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holloways Almshouses are a group of almshouses founded in 1724, with a plaque set in the gable end, and rebuilt in 1868 by William Wilkinson. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a stone-coped gabled stone slate roof, along with large stone ridge and end stacks. It has a six-unit plan, is one storey high with an attic, and has a six-window range. The 20th-century doors are set in three Gothic-style pointed doorways, each with bracketed hoods above. The windows are two-light stone-mullioned, and those on the first floor are set in stone-coped gables with finials and pointed-arched hood moulds. There are hipped one-storey service ranges at the rear. The interior has not been inspected. The almshouses were founded by John Holloway, a clothier who died in 1724, to provide housing for "aged unmarried women."
Local climate
Holloways Almshouses receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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