Calnan Brothers is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1971. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
Calnan Brothers
- WRENN ID
- rough-spindle-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1971
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Calnan Brothers, 42, High Street, Benson, OX10 6RP
- OS grid reference
- SU 619 917
- Coordinates
- 51.62109, -1.1061
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Calnan Brothers is a house that has been converted into a house and shop. It dates from the 17th century, with an early 18th-century front and 19th-century alterations. The building is constructed of grey brick with red brick dressings and has an old plain-tile roof, featuring a brick end stack on the right side. It is two stories tall and has a two-window range. There is a four-panel part-glazed door in the center, with 19th-century shop windows on both the left and right. The first floor has two 4-pane sash windows. A parapet is present at the roof. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Calnan Brothers 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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