Forest Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. A Early 19th century Residential. 1 related planning application.
Forest Hill House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-casement-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Residential
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Address
- Forest Hill House, Main Street, Forest Hill with Shotover, OX33 1EQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 581 075
- Coordinates
- 51.76334, -1.15865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forest Hill House is a vicarage that has been converted into a house. It dates from the early 19th century, with a slightly earlier service wing. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar and coursed rubble, topped with a Welsh-slate roof featuring stone gable stacks. The layout is L-shaped, including the service range, and it has two storeys.
The front of the house is symmetrical with three windows and includes a plinth, a storey band, and a parapet cornice. The central doorway is flanked by columns and an entablature, containing a six-panel door with a rectangular overlight that has margin lights. The outer bays feature two-storey mid-19th century rectangular bay windows, while a 12-pane sash window remains above the door.
The garden front, which is to the right, has a total of four windows. To the left, it showcases the triangular-pedimented gable of the front range and includes two additional bays with 12-pane sashes. The service range, made of rubble, is located to the left of the main front and contains some 18th-century casements. The house is noted to have been finished around 1828.
Local climate
Forest Hill House 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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