Headington House is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. Mansion. 13 related planning applications.
Headington House
- WRENN ID
- swift-copper-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford East MP: Anneliese Dodds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1954
- Type
- Mansion
- Address
- Headington House, Old High Street, OX3 9HU
- OS grid reference
- SP 544 073
- Coordinates
- 51.76253, -1.21233
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Headington House is a mansion built in 1783, featuring a three-storey ashlar front with rusticated ground floor quoins made of brick. The building has bands at the first and second floors, a modillioned eaves cornice, and a hipped roof covered with Welsh slate. It includes sash windows and a Doric porch topped with a split pediment. There is a modern brick addition on the east side. Inside, you can find some late 18th-century fireplaces and grates.
Local climate
Headington 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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