17, Brook Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. House. 4 related planning applications.
17, Brook Street
- WRENN ID
- sombre-trefoil-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- 17, Brook Street, Benson, OX10 6LQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 620 918
- Coordinates
- 51.62168, -1.10463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, dating to the 17th century, with alterations in the 19th century. It is a timber-framed building with rendered infill panels and a plain-tile roof, featuring brick end stacks. A recessed central porch has a 19th-century panelled door. The ground floor has a 2-light casement window to the left and right of the porch. The first floor has a round-topped 12-pane sash window in the centre, flanked by 2-light casements. The interior of the house has not been inspected. The building was previously listed as a pair of cottages located 50 yards north-east of The Crown Inn.
Local climate
17, Brook Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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