10, Castle Square is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Cottage, house. 2 related planning applications.
10, Castle Square
- WRENN ID
- fallow-truss-spindle
- 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
- Cottage, house
- Address
- 10, Castle Square, Benson, OX10 6SD
- OS grid reference
- SU 617 917
- Coordinates
- 51.62092, -1.10971
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 10 Castle Square is a former pair of cottages, now a house, likely built in the early 19th century with some alterations made in the 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick with grey brick headers in Flemish bond and features an old plain-tile roof with a brick central ridge stack. It is two stories high and has a two-window range. There is a 20th-century door on the right side of the building. The ground floor has three 2-light casement windows with segmental brick heads, while the first floor has two 2-light casement windows. A dentil cornice is present at the eaves. The interior has not been inspected. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
10, Castle Square 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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