Carpenters is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1970. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Carpenters
- WRENN ID
- knotted-bonework-marsh
- 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
- Address
- Carpenters, 18, Cornmarket, Thame, OX9 2BL
- OS grid reference
- SP 706 058
- Coordinates
- 51.74696, -0.97796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century house, later used as a shop and dwelling. It is located on the southwest side of Cornmarket, Thame. The house is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with flared brick headers. It has a slate roof and brick chimney stacks at the rear. The building is three storeys high and has a three-window front. A central entrance features modern double-glazed doors with an overlight. Modern shop windows are located to the left and right of the entrance. A modern fascia board sits between the ground and first floors. The first floor retains original 16-pane sash windows with flat brick surrounds. The second floor has 6-pane sash windows with cambered brick surrounds. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Carpenters 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 2016
- 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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