The Plough Public House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1952. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Plough Public House
- WRENN ID
- swift-pediment-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1952
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Plough Public House, High Street, Long Wittenham, OX14 4QH
- OS grid reference
- SU 546 937
- Coordinates
- 51.64026, -1.21234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Plough Public House is a public house dating from the early 17th century, with a late 17th-century front and a late 19th-century cross-wing on the left. It features a limestone base and is constructed of red brick with grey brick headers in Flemish bond, topped with an old plain-tile roof and a brick ridge stack located to the right of the center. The building is two stories tall and has a five-window range. To the left of the center is a four-panel door with an overlight, and there is another four-panel door with an overlight and a hood supported by carved brackets in the center. All openings have wooden cross-windows with cambered brick heads. A brick band runs between the ground and first floors, and there is a dentil cornice at the eaves.
At the rear, there is significant timber-framing with brick infill, including a double queen-post truss in the cross-gable on the left. Inside, there is extensive beaming and an open fireplace located in the rear left. The late 19th-century cross-wing on the left features coursed squared limestone on the ground floor and tile-hanging, including fishscale bands, on the first floor, which jetties out at the end.
Local climate
The Plough Public House 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- 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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