Albany Carpets is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1970. A C19 House, shop, dwelling. 1 related planning application.
Albany Carpets
- WRENN ID
- riven-iron-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1970
- Type
- House, shop, dwelling
- Address
- Albany Carpets, 19, Buttermarket, Thame, OX9 3BW
- OS grid reference
- SP 706 058
- Coordinates
- 51.74734, -0.9775
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Albany Carpets is a house that has been converted into a shop and dwelling. It dates from the early 19th century, with a late 20th-century shop front added to the ground floor. The building features a painted brick ground floor, while the first and second floors are constructed of red brick with flared headers in Flemish bond. It has an old plain-tile roof and a brick end stack on the left side. The building is three stories high and has a three-window range. The modern shop front includes glazed doors on both the left and right. The first floor has 12-pane unhorned sash windows with cambered brick heads, while the second floor has 6-pane unhorned sash windows with cambered brick heads, and the first floor also features 16-pane unhorned sashes with flat brick heads. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Albany Carpets 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 2011
- 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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