Wheelers and Attached Cottage and Wall is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Wheelers and Attached Cottage and Wall
- WRENN ID
- fallow-screen-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wheelers and Attached Cottage and Wall, 23, Shirburn Street, Watlington, OX49 5BU
- OS grid reference
- SU 690 945
- Coordinates
- 51.64591, -1.00332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, known as Wheelers and the attached cottage and wall, dates from the late 18th century. It is constructed of header bond brick with red brick quoins and dressings, and features a gabled M-shaped old tile roof with brick stacks at the right end and left internal stacks. The house has a double-depth plan and stands three storeys tall with a one-window range. There is a blocked door to the right, and segmental arches with second-floor timber lintels over sash windows. The rear has a 20th-century door and 18th-century sashes.
At the rear left, there is a brick-built passage with a plank door and a two-light Gothick leaded casement, which connects to a 17th-century two-storey, two-bay cottage. The left side wall of this cottage features rectangular timber framing with brick infill, while the right side is made of mid-19th-century brick. It has a gabled old tile roof and brick gable end stacks. The interior has not been inspected.
Additionally, there is a subsidiary feature: a wall to the rear right made of flint rubble with brick dressings and a round arch over a door.
Local climate
Wheelers and Attached Cottage and Wall 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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 — 1 transaction since 2014
- 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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