18, Old London Road is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1985. House.
18, Old London Road
- WRENN ID
- solitary-transept-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 18, Old London Road, Benson
- OS grid reference
- SU 620 916
- Coordinates
- 51.6202, -1.10481
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house located at 18 Old London Road, dated 1701 on a datestone in the center of the first floor. It features coursed limestone rubble with brick dressings and a plain-tile roof, along with brick ridge stacks. The building is two stories high and has a two-window range. There is a central 20th-century door leading to a 20th-century porch with a lean-to roof. On either side of the door, there are 20th-century casements in the original openings. A brick band runs between the ground and first floors. To the right on the first floor, there is a two-light casement, and to the left, a three-light casement. The interior has not been inspected. There is a 19th-century two-story, one-window extension to the left and a 20th-century two-story, one-window extension on the right.
Local climate
18, Old London Road 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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