Combe House is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. School.
Combe House
- WRENN ID
- proud-granite-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1954
- Type
- School
- Address
- Combe House, St Thomas Street
- OS grid reference
- SP 506 061
- Coordinates
- 51.7517, -1.26783
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Combe House, also known as Gate House, is a building located on St Thomas' Street, constructed in 1702 by John Coombe, a citizen and plasterer of London. Originally built as a school, it features a dated inscription panel on the north front. The structure is two stories high, made of stone with stone copings and a stone slate roof that includes gabled attic dormers. A stone band runs along the first floor, and there is a coved moulded eaves cornice made of wood. The south side has two stone-based stacks with modern brick shafts. Most of the windows are original, consisting of 2-light stone-framed casements with leaded lights and plain mullions. The east doorway is framed in plain stone and topped with a moulded pediment. A drawing of the building from 1821 by J C Buckler is held in the Bodleian Library.
Local climate
Combe 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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