Prospect Books and Prints Witney Town Council Offices is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1952. House.
Prospect Books and Prints Witney Town Council Offices
- WRENN ID
- stony-string-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Prospect Books and Prints Witney Town Council Offices, Market Square, OX28 6AG
- OS grid reference
- SP 356 096
- Coordinates
- 51.78398, -1.48523
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Prospect Books and Prints, now Witney Town Council offices, is a building that originally served as a house and dates from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble, featuring an early 19th-century stucco front and a gabled stone slate roof. The building has a tall late 17th-century brick ridge stack with a drip course.
The structure has a four-unit plan and stands two storeys high, with a five-window range. The upper storey has late 18th-century to early 19th-century six-pane sash windows, while the ground floor consists of 20th-century shop fronts. The rear of the building is made from similar materials and includes a ridge stack that is stone finished in brick, along with paired early 19th-century sashes.
Inside, the left side features inferior cased beams, while the right side has chamfered and quartered beams, along with a cambered tie-beam. The rear range includes a stop-chamfered beam and a remodelled open fireplace on the right.
Local climate
Prospect Books and Prints Witney Town Council Offices 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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