159-164, Kingston Road is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1968. House. 7 related planning applications.
159-164, Kingston Road
- WRENN ID
- ghost-chapel-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- 159-164, Kingston Road, OX2 6RP
- OS grid reference
- SP 505 074
- Coordinates
- 51.76303, -1.26858
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of six houses, numbered 159 to 164 Kingston Road, built between 1870 and 1873 by Clapton Rolfe. The houses are constructed of polychrome brick and are two stories with an attic. They feature bay windows and arched entrances, which are paired, with a central column. The roofs are tiled with gabled dormers and brick stacks. Number 164 is a slightly larger house situated on a corner. The houses are similar in style to numbers 114 to 138 on Kingston Road.
Local climate
159-164, Kingston Road 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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