53 and 55, Bell Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1951. Terraced houses. 2 related planning applications.
53 and 55, Bell Street
- WRENN ID
- tenth-basalt-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1951
- Type
- Terraced houses
- Address
- 53 and 55, Bell Street, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 2BG
- OS grid reference
- SU 760 828
- Coordinates
- 51.53915, -0.90466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 53 and 55 on Bell Street are early 19th century buildings featuring a facade with a bracketed, moulded wooden eaves cornice and a slate roof. The facade above the ground floor is finished in stucco with rusticated quoins. The buildings are two storeys high with an attic and have five windows, which are sash windows with glazing bars set in moulded architraves. The ground floor includes three plain modern shop windows that are integrated into the brickwork. These properties, along with Nos 45, 45A, and 47, and Nos 53 to 81 (odd), form a group with Nos 44 to 52 (even) and Nos 60 to 64 (even) across the street, as well as with No 2 New Street.
Local climate
53 and 55, Bell 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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