26, Upper High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1951. Townhouse. 3 related planning applications.
26, Upper High Street
- WRENN ID
- pale-turret-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1951
- Type
- Townhouse
- Address
- 26, Upper High Street, Thame, OX9 3EX
- OS grid reference
- SP 708 057
- Coordinates
- 51.74587, -0.97455
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
26 Upper High Street is a townhouse built in the late 18th century. It features a grey brick plinth and grey brick in header bond, accented with red brick dressings. The roof is slate, and there are brick stacks at each end. The building is two stories high and has a three-window range. To the left, there is a two-panel door with a fanlight, framed by painted stone Doric columns that support a cornice. To the right, a plank door leads to a passageway, also with a fanlight and a cambered brick head. The central window is a tripartite unhorned sash with glazing bars, set beneath brick flat arches and accompanied by wrought-iron railings at the base. The first floor has three 12-pane unhorned sash windows, each with brick flat arches above. The eaves are bracketed. Inside, there is a straight-flight staircase with winders, late 18th-century marble fireplaces on both the ground and first floors, and moulded plaster cornices in the front rooms on both levels.
Local climate
26, Upper High Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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