The Colophon Bookshop is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1970. Shop and dwelling. 2 related planning applications.

The Colophon Bookshop

WRENN ID
stranded-vault-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 March 1970
Type
Shop and dwelling
Address
The Colophon Bookshop, 42, St Mary's Street, Wallingford, OX10 0EU
OS grid reference
SU 606 891
Coordinates
51.59799, -1.12519
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This early 18th-century shop and dwelling is located in St. Mary’s Street, Wallingford, and has a 19th-century addition to its left. The main part of the building is rendered, likely over brick, and has a plain-tile roof with a brick end stack. It is a two-story, two-window range, with a central two-panel, part-glazed door. Shop windows are positioned to the left and right of the doorway. A flat rendered band runs between the ground and first floors. Above, there are two four-pane horned sash windows. Some beaming is visible in the interior. To the left is a two-story, single-window range addition, also rendered over brick, with an old plain-tile roof and a brick end stack. A sash door is situated to the right, while a two-light casement window is present on the ground floor to the left and another on the first floor in the centre.

Local climate

The Colophon Bookshop 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 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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  • 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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