Vale Brook House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1974. House. 3 related planning applications.
Vale Brook House
- WRENN ID
- grey-buttress-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Vale Brook House, 80, High Street, Wheatley, OX33 1XP
- OS grid reference
- SP 596 056
- Coordinates
- 51.74667, -1.13679
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vale Brook House is an 18th-century house located on the south side of Wheatley High Street. It is constructed of colourwashed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features weatherboarding, an old plain-tile roof, and brick stacks. The house has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high. The front has two windows, a storey band, and 4-pane sash windows on the first floor, which are adorned with keyblocks. The double-span roof is hipped to the left and has end stacks. At the rear, there are casement windows, and a rear range continues to the right with weatherboarding. The entrance is now located at the rear and features a 4-panel door. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Vale Brook House 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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 — 2 transactions since 2012
- 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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