Wheelwrights is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. House.
Wheelwrights
- WRENN ID
- dark-cellar-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wheelwrights, Cuxham with Easington
- OS grid reference
- SU 667 952
- Coordinates
- 51.6519, -1.03711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wheelwrights is a house located in Cuxham, with origins dating back to the late 17th century. It features square timber framing with brick infill and has a gabled thatched roof with a brick stack at one end. The house has a two-unit plan and two storeys, with a three-window range. The front includes a 20th-century door with a timber porch and a 20th-century glazed door to the left. There are also 20th-century casements and half-dormer casements. The left gable wall displays an exposed cruck blade. To the right, there is a short 20th-century extension built with similar materials. Inside, the house has timber-framed partitions, chamfered beams, and an open fireplace on the left.
Local climate
Wheelwrights 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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