Old Timbers is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Old Timbers
- WRENN ID
- lost-quoin-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Timbers, 62, West End, Launton, OX26 5DG
- OS grid reference
- SP 605 222
- Coordinates
- 51.89534, -1.12093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Timbers is a small house dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, likely incorporating earlier fabric. It is constructed from limestone rubble with wooden lintels, and has an old plain-tile roof with brick gable stacks. The house originally comprised two main rooms. The front features a four-window arrangement; the first floor has two two-light casement windows, with blocked windows in the first and third bays. The ground floor entrance, now with a 20th-century brick porch, is situated in the third bay, alongside a large three-light casement to the left and a two-light casement to the right. A 20th-century dormer has been added to the roof. The rear of the house exhibits old casements and indicates evidence of earlier work. Inside, the house contains heavy chamfered beams and two large blocked fireplaces.
Local climate
Old Timbers sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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