48, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1985. House.
48, High Street
- WRENN ID
- hollow-garret-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 48, High Street, Benson, OX10 6RP
- OS grid reference
- SU 620 917
- Coordinates
- 51.62127, -1.10567
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 48 High Street is an 18th-century house with 19th-century alterations. It features painted brick and painted flint on the first floor to the right, with an old plain-tile roof and a brick stack at the right end. The building is two stories high and has a two-window range. There is a four-panel door to the left and a four-panel part-glazed door to the right of the center. To the left of the center, there is a 12-pane sash window, and to the right, a 19th-century shop window. On the first floor, there are two 9-pane sash windows. The interior has not been inspected. The house is included for its group value.
Local climate
48, High 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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