Blanket Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1952. Blanket hall. 2 related planning applications.

Blanket Hall

WRENN ID
keen-barrel-fern
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1952
Type
Blanket hall
Address
Blanket Hall, 100, High Street, Witney, OX28 6HL
OS grid reference
SP 357 101
Coordinates
51.78851, -1.48282
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blanket Hall is a building constructed in 1721, featuring a panel that displays the arms of the Witney Company of Weavers, which reads "Robert Collier Master 1721". It is made of limestone ashlar and has a gabled roof with a lateral stack finished in brick. The building is designed in a Provincial Baroque style and consists of two storeys with a symmetrical three-window layout.

The entrance includes raised and segmental-headed keyed architraves surrounding plank double doors set in a heavy wooden frame with overlights. Similar architraves are found on the nine-pane sash windows and the twelve-pane sash window above the door, all of which have thick glazing bars. The exterior features a raised storey band, quoin strips, and ball finials with gadrooned bases at the corners, which support an open pediment. The pediment is adorned with half-H apron blocks beneath the cornice and a clock in the tympanum above the arms of the Witney Company of Weavers. At the top of the roof is an elegant wooden bell turret with a cupola.

At the rear, there are two similar sash windows and a round-arched doorway. There is also a remodelled 18th-century range made of coursed limestone rubble with a gabled artificial stone slate roof. Inside, there are 18th-century panelled doors, although only partial inspection has been possible. The Witney Blanket Weavers Company, which was chartered in 1711, used this building for weighing and measuring blankets.

Local climate

Blanket Hall 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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