High Street House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Town house. 7 related planning applications.
High Street House
- WRENN ID
- old-belfry-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- High Street House, 7, Watlington, OX49 5PZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 689 945
- Coordinates
- 51.64515, -1.00528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Street House is an early 18th-century town house, likely dating from circa 1720-30. The front facade is constructed of grey brick with red brick dressings, although the ground floor was rebuilt in the late 19th century using brick. The roof is not visible, and the building has moulded brick rear lateral and end stacks. It follows a double-depth plan and is designed in an Early Georgian style.
The house is three storeys high with a five-window front. It features a fine doorcase with fluted pilasters, a pulvinated frieze, and a segmental pediment, leading to a five-panelled door. The ground-floor sash windows have late 19th-century red brick aprons, while the upper floors have 18th-century sashes set within gauged brick segmental arches. Red brick moulded string courses and gauged red brick pilasters with moulded entablatures extend upwards to meet cornices beneath a parapet.
A two-storey rear wing, constructed of chequer brick with a raised storey band and a gabled old tile roof, adjoins the main house. This wing features a canted bay with sashes to the rear, a stair turret to the left, and a symmetrical wing to the right which contains a four-panelled door with an overlight. A mid-18th-century wing to the rear features mid-19th-century sash windows.
The interior contains a mixture of 18th and 19th-century panelled doors. The ground floor includes chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and an ogee-stopped beam, an early 18th-century fireplace on the left side, and a mid-18th-century panelled room to the rear left. The hall on the rear right features early and mid-18th-century panelling and a dog-leg staircase with barley-sugar balusters on a closed string, with a panelled dado. On the first floor, a bolection-panelled room is located to the right, while a straight-cut panelled room, featuring a bolection-moulded overmantel, is to the left. The second floor contains a panelled landing and mid-18th-century panelled rooms with stone fireplaces on both the left and right sides.
Local climate
High Street 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 7 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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