Venison House Approximately 60 Metres North West of the Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1986. House.

Venison House Approximately 60 Metres North West of the Keepers Cottage

WRENN ID
lunar-remnant-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 August 1986
Type
House
OS grid reference
SU 545 973
Coordinates
51.67234, -1.21283
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Venison House is a building dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It features weatherboarded timber framing set on a brick plinth and has a thatched roof. The structure has a rectangular plan, with the upper part of the walls covered in metal mesh. There is a plank door located at one end, and the roof is hipped. Inside, there is a stone-flag floor, and the underside of the roof is plastered. The building is situated on an island in a pond. Nuneham Park, where Venison House is located, is listed in the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission County Register of Gardens at Grade I.

Local climate

Venison House Approximately 60 Metres North West of the Keepers Cottage 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 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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