Village Stores and Post Office and Adjoining House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Shop, dwelling.

Village Stores and Post Office and Adjoining House

WRENN ID
ruined-corner-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1985
Type
Shop, dwelling
OS grid reference
SP 578 091
Coordinates
51.77832, -1.16312
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Village Stores and Post Office, along with the adjoining house, is a shop and dwelling built in the early 18th century and altered in the 19th century. It features limestone rubble and ashlar construction, with some timber lintels, and has concrete plain-tile and Welsh-slate roofs topped with a brick gable stack. The building is a single range with two storeys.

The house, located to the left, has a three-window ashlar front with a plinth that has a chamfered offset. The entrance, situated to the right of center, includes a low plank door and a 20th-century canopy. The right bay has tall casement windows on both the ground and first floors, while there is a blocked window above the door, all featuring stone flat arches. The left bay contains 12-pane sash windows, which are 19th-century insertions replacing pairs of earlier windows.

To the right is a four-window rubble shop range, which predates the house but received a slate-roofed upper storey in the 19th century. The shop front has a central door, with a two-light casement window to the right and a 20th-century shop window to the left, along with two-light casements on the first floor. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Village Stores and Post Office and Adjoining House 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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