St George's is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1984. House. 5 related planning applications.
St George's
- WRENN ID
- stranded-threshold-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford East MP: Anneliese Dodds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- St George's, 31, Cowley Road, Littlemore, OX4 4LE
- OS grid reference
- SP 538 030
- Coordinates
- 51.72322, -1.22133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 17th-century house. It is constructed from coursed squared limestone rubble with timber lintels, and has stone slate and old plain-tile roofs with brick and stone stacks set on rendered stone bases. The house has a T-shaped plan, two storeys plus attics, and a three-window front. The upper floor has a three-light casement flanked by twenty-pane sash windows. The ground floor has three renewed casements. A two-light ovolo-moulded wooden casement is found in the right-hand gable wall. The entrance is in the left-hand gable wall. A rear wing of baffle-entry plan (two units) extends to the left. A large, clustered central stack includes the gnomon of a sundial, and a lateral stack projects to the left. The first floor of the rear wing has ovolo-moulded casements of four, one, and three lights, with 18th and 19th-century casements on the ground floor. A two-light roof dormer is located to the right. An outshut is situated in the angle between the main range and the rear wing. Further ovolo-moulded frames can be seen at the rear. The interior has been partially remodelled, probably in the early 19th century, but retains chamfered spine beams with run-out stops at ground and first floor levels, along with 18th-century joinery. Two bedrooms feature stone Tudor-arched fireplaces with moulded surrounds and stops. The roof has a single row of butt-purlins. The garden is enclosed by a high stone wall, and partly borders Long Wall.
Local climate
St George's 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 3 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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