Stow Youth Hostel (Yha) is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1960. Youth hostel. 6 related planning applications.
Stow Youth Hostel (Yha)
- WRENN ID
- small-vault-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1960
- Type
- Youth hostel
- Address
- Stow Youth Hostel (Yha), the Square, Stow-On-The-Wold, GL54 1AF
- OS grid reference
- SP 191 258
- Coordinates
- 51.93069, -1.72262
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stow Youth Hostel (YHA), formerly listed as premises adjoining and to the north of the White Hart Hotel, dates from the late 18th or early 19th century. It is constructed of ashlar with a Cotswold stone roof. The building features quoin pilasters and a parapet band. It is two storeys and has attics, with a two-window front. The windows are sashes with glazing bars set in architrave surrounds; the windows on the left-hand side are paired. The front door is of eight panels with raised and fielded panels, the top two panels being glazed, and is sheltered by a small stone hood on brackets. The roof has stone verges and kneelers, and three gabled dormers with modern casements. Ashlar end stacks with weathering are also present.
Local climate
Stow Youth Hostel (Yha) receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 1996
- 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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