Oakley House is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1985. House.

Oakley House

WRENN ID
rough-banister-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tendring
Constituency
Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 May 1985
Type
House
Address
Oakley House, High Street, Thorpe-Le-Soken
OS grid reference
TM 180 222
Coordinates
51.85621, 1.16471
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Oakley House is a house dating from around 1800. It has a timber frame that is plastered, with side walls made of red brick in Flemish bond, and is roofed with handmade red clay tiles. The main part of the house faces northeast and features an internal stack at each end, while there is a service range at the rear of the right end, which also has an internal stack. The main range is two storeys high with attics, and the rear wing is one storey with attics.

The house has a three-window range of original sash windows, each with 12 lights. The central entrance features a six-panel door set within a fluted doorcase that has a dentilled open pediment and a fanlight with 20th-century leaded glazing. The eaves cornice is in the Gothick style and is elaborately moulded in plaster. The roof is gambrel-shaped, and there are shaped sprockets under the rear eaves of the main range. The Gothick eaves cornice shows close similarities to that of Armond House in Great Oakley.

Local climate

Oakley House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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