Old Quarries is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. House. 6 related planning applications.
Old Quarries
- WRENN ID
- cold-loft-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Quarries, Avening, GL8 8NJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 880 981
- Coordinates
- 51.68242, -2.17373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Quarries is a large, detached house dating to the early 19th century, originally built as a private residence and later adapted for use as a home for people with mental handicaps. The house is square in plan and has a hipped slate roof concealed behind a parapet. The exterior is rendered.
The west-facing entrance front has three 12-pane sash windows. A central porch, featuring a cornice, a blocking course, and a keystone, provides access to double doors which are half-glazed with decorative tracery. Round windows flank the porch. The south-facing garden front exhibits a large, central, full-height canted bay window on the ground floor, also with sashes, and three 12-pane sash windows on the first floor.
The interior retains considerable original joinery. The main entrance hall contains a cantilevered stone staircase with a swept wooden handrail and wrought iron balustrade decorated with an acanthus leaf design. An oval skylight illuminates the stairwell.
Local climate
Old Quarries receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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