Somerville House is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Villa.
Somerville House
- WRENN ID
- sheer-tracery-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Somerville House, 130, Banbury Road
- OS grid reference
- SP 510 086
- Coordinates
- 51.77376, -1.26208
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Somerville House is a double fronted villa, possibly designed by S.L. Seekham, built around 1850. The building has a two-storey front and a three-storey rear with a cellar. The front elevation features two twelve-pane sash windows at ground floor level and three twelve-pane sash windows at first floor level. There is an entrance porch supported by Grecian Doric columns made of stone, with pilasters behind. The structure includes a full entablature and a three-stepped podium. The roof is slated, hipped at both the east and west ends, with a central valley. There are two chimney stacks on the east elevation, two on the north, and one on the west.
Local climate
Somerville 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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