Dormer Croft is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Dormer Croft
- WRENN ID
- last-rafter-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford East MP: Anneliese Dodds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dormer Croft, 28, Cowley Road, Littlemore, OX4 4LD
- OS grid reference
- SP 539 030
- Coordinates
- 51.72363, -1.22069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dormer Croft is an early 17th-century house, potentially with earlier origins. It is located on the east side of Cowley Road in Littlemore. The house is constructed from rubble limestone with irregular brickwork and has an old plain-tile roof and brick stacks. Originally a two-unit through-passage plan with a cross-wing, the main range has a brick-cased two-window front. It has one storey plus attics with two two-light casement windows and two dormers. The left gable displays the inscription "N/B/S/1657" on a quoin stone. The return front of the two-storey stone cross-wing has been altered, featuring 20th-century casement windows. A stone stack is present on the front gable.
The interior of the main range features two open fireplaces with cambered, chamfered bressumers; one is flanked by a wooden settle. There are chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and joists spanning onto perimeter beams. Roof trusses support a single row of trenched purlins with heavy wind-braces. Within the cross-wing, a first-floor fireplace has a timber Tudor arch. Above it is a plaster panel with a moulded arched border containing a portrait head and floral design, flanked by the date 1630. The ground floor exhibits intersecting chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.
A cottage attached to the front gable of the cross-wing is excluded from the listing.
Local climate
Dormer Croft 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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