Numbers 3-8 River View is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1983. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Numbers 3-8 River View
- WRENN ID
- late-jamb-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Numbers 3-8 River View, Church Road, Sandford-On-Thames, OX4 4YF
- OS grid reference
- SP 532 014
- Coordinates
- 51.70963, -1.23075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 3-8 River View is a terrace of six cottages dating to around 1825, built in Sandford-on-Thames on Church Road. The cottages are constructed of brick in Flemish bond, with corrugated sheet roofs and brick ridge stacks. They have a double-depth plan, arranged over two storeys, with two-window fronts. Each cottage has a central plank door flanked by three-light casement windows at ground and first floor level, all set within segmental arches. The roofs have a 10-degree pitch and boxed eaves. A four-flue brick stack is located between each pair of cottages. The cottages were built to house workers from the nearby paper mill owned by James Swann. Originally, the roofs were covered in tarred paper, in accordance with the ideas of J.C. Loudon as detailed in his 1811 pamphlet "Account of the Paper Roofs used at Tew Lodge, Oxon," in which Swann is mentioned as being familiar with paper roofing. The roof trusses were constructed precisely to Loudon's specifications. This terrace is the only known surviving building erected to Loudon’s paper roof specifications.
Local climate
Numbers 3-8 River View 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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