12, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. House. 4 related planning applications.
12, High Street
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-entrance-grove
- 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
- House
- Address
- 12, High Street, Benson, OX10 6RP
- OS grid reference
- SU 618 917
- Coordinates
- 51.62081, -1.10802
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 12 High Street is an 18th-century house that has undergone some alterations in the 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone with red brick dressings and features an old plain-tile roof with a brick ridge stack. The building is two stories high and has a four-window range.
The entrance is a six-panel door located to the left of the center, which has an overlight and a flat hood above it. To the right of the center, there are double plank doors. On the ground floor to the left, there are two four-pane sash windows with segmental brick heads. To the right, there is a tripartite sash window that also has glazing bars and a segmental brick head. A flat brick band runs between the ground and first floors.
On the first floor, to the left, there are two four-pane sashes with segmental brick heads, while the center features paired four-pane sashes with a segmental brick head. To the right, there is another tripartite sash window with glazing bars and a segmental brick head. The left return of the building has blocked segmental brick-headed openings. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
12, High Street 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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