Lipscombs is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Lipscombs
- WRENN ID
- odd-buttress-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lipscombs, 3, Spring Lane, Horspath, OX33 1SA
- OS grid reference
- SP 571 050
- Coordinates
- 51.74118, -1.17432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lipscombs is a small house dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with timber lintels, topped by a plain-tile roof and featuring brick gable stacks. The building has a two-unit plan and a rear outshut, standing two storeys high. The front has two windows and a door located to the left of centre, with three-light casements on both the ground and first floors. There is a 20th-century single-storey extension to the right. The rear of the house has small casements. Inside, there is an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer and beams that have chamfer stops.
Local climate
Lipscombs 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 2021
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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