The Book House the Pied Pedaller is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1970. Commercial, residential. 8 related planning applications.
The Book House the Pied Pedaller
- WRENN ID
- outer-vestry-autumn
- 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
- Commercial, residential
- Address
- The Book House the Pied Pedaller, 94, High Street, Thame, OX9 3EH
- OS grid reference
- SP 705 060
- Coordinates
- 51.7485, -0.97954
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, comprising The Book House and The Pied Pedaller, likely began as two houses with shops and living accommodation. It probably dates from the 17th century, but has an early 18th-century front facade and later alterations. The building has a rendered plinth, is constructed of grey brick with red brick dressings, and has an old plain-tile roof with brick internal stacks at the rear.
It is a two-storey building with a five-window front. There is a six-panel door with a segmental brick arch and flat hood on the left side of centre. The right-hand side has a 20th-century shop front with a central glazed double door, flanked by plate-glass shop windows. Four-pane sash windows with brick flat arches are present on the ground and first floors to the left and to the left of centre. Wooden casements with segmental brick relieving arches are situated on the first floor in the centre, to the right of centre, and on the right-hand side. A dog-tooth course runs along the base of a plain parapet. The ground floor interior consists of 20th-century shops.
Local climate
The Book House the Pied Pedaller 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 — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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