Sketchley is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. A Post-medieval House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Sketchley
- WRENN ID
- floating-storey-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1968
- Type
- House, shop
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- Sketchley, 20a and 20b, Buttermarket, Thame
- OS grid reference
- SP 706 059
- Coordinates
- 51.74748, -0.97779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sketchley is a house that has been converted into a shop, located on the south-west side of Thame Buttermarket. It dates back to the 17th century, with some alterations made in the late 19th century. The building is rendered, likely over brick, and features an old plain-tile half-hipped gable roof with a rendered brick end stack.
The structure is three stories high and has a three-bay range facing the Buttermarket, with the main front oriented towards the north-west and facing the Town Hall. The ground floor has a late 19th-century projecting shop front, which includes a central glazed door flanked by plate-glass windows. On the first floor, there is an angled bay window topped with a hipped old plain-tile roof, featuring wood mullion and transom windows. The second floor has an unhorned tripartite sash window. The eaves are coved, and there is a three-light casement window on the gable end. The Buttermarket front displays irregular fenestration with 12-pane unhorned sashes. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Sketchley 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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