Oriel House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1970. House. 4 related planning applications.
Oriel House
- WRENN ID
- haunted-hall-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oriel House, 8 and 10, Church Green, Witney, OX28 4AW
- OS grid reference
- SP 355 094
- Coordinates
- 51.78281, -1.48571
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oriel House is a house dating from approximately the 1850s and 1860s. It is constructed of limestone ashlar to the front, with a gabled concrete tile roof and stone ridge stacks. The house is of a central-staircase plan and built in the Gothic Revival style, with two storeys and an attic. It has a three-window front. The two gabled bays to the right have tympanum arches above all openings, chamfered attic lights, and four-light pointed-arched stone-mullioned and transomed windows on the first floor. A six-panelled door with an overlight is set in a pointed arched architrave, flanked by similar mullioned and transomed windows, and a canted bay window featuring matching windows and a pierced balustrade. To the left is a semi-circular oriel window featuring an angel carved into a corbel, and a segmental-arched carriage entry with a 20th-century door and window. To the right, No. 8 has a front of squared and coursed limestone, also a three-window range, with a gabled bay to the left, a tympanum arch over a 20th-century plank door set in a chamfered architrave, and similar mullioned and transomed windows. The interior has not been inspected, but is likely to be of interest.
Local climate
Oriel House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 4 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
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