Grandpont House is a Grade II* listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. House. 3 related planning applications.
Grandpont House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-cloister-furze
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford East MP: Anneliese Dodds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- Grandpont House, Abingdon Road, OX1 4LD
- OS grid reference
- SP 515 054
- Coordinates
- 51.7454, -1.25541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grandpont House was built around 1785 for Elias Taunton. It is a three-storey building made of stuccoed brick, featuring a moulded cornice, a parapet, and bands at the first and second floors. The side stacks are also stuccoed. The house has an L-shaped plan with a north-west wing that projects at the back. The east elevation, which faces the river, includes two three-storey, three-sided bays with tall sash windows. Between these bays is a doorway topped with a late 18th-century semi-circular fanlight; above this doorway is a tall Venetian window, and above that is a three-light sash window. The north-west wing has a three-storey stuccoed front with a hipped roof made of Welsh slate and sash windows. The north sides of both the main block and the north-west wing are constructed of red brick, and the windows in the wing are blind. Notably, the house is built on a two-arched stone bridge, and there was once a mill located here.
Local climate
Grandpont House 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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