135, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. A C18 House. 5 related planning applications.
135, High Street
- WRENN ID
- weathered-dormer-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- 135, High Street, OX1 4DN
- OS grid reference
- SP 513 061
- Coordinates
- 51.7519, -1.25689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
135 High Street is an early 18th-century house and modern shops. The front is stuccoed over a timber frame and sits above cellars. The roof is covered in Welsh slate and has three gabled dormers. There is an overhang at the first floor, and a heavy, moulded modillioned cornice. The house has three sash windows. The interior includes 18th-century panelling in rooms on the first and second floors. The house was once known as Hore's tenement. Historical records indicate that Elinor Sylvester suffered a fire here in 1679 and subsequently rebuilt. The core of the present house may or may not be that of the 1679 building. The University of Oxford acquired the property in 1947. The building forms part of a group of listed buildings on the South Side.
Local climate
135, High Street 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 — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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