Summertown House is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1972. House. 3 related planning applications.

Summertown House

WRENN ID
fallen-cornice-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 February 1972
Type
House
Address
Summertown House, Apsley Road, OX2 7QZ
OS grid reference
SP 504 098
Coordinates
51.78502, -1.27034
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Summertown House is an early to mid-19th century building constructed of ashlar. It stands two storeys high and features five windows arranged in a 1:3:1 pattern, with an eaves pediment above the central three windows. The central window on the upper floor is blank. The building has sash windows with glazing bars and a late 19th-century canted bay window on the left side of the ground floor. There is a doorway located at the side, and the house is topped with a hipped slate roof.

Local climate

Summertown 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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