29 and 31, Main Road is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1952. Row of houses. 4 related planning applications.
29 and 31, Main Road
- WRENN ID
- riven-timber-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1952
- Type
- Row of houses
- Address
- 29 and 31, Main Road, East Hagbourne, OX11 9LR
- OS grid reference
- SU 526 882
- Coordinates
- 51.59101, -1.24197
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
29 and 31 Main Road, also known as No. 1 Church Close, is a row of three houses built in the mid-17th century. The buildings feature a rendered base, large timber framing, and brick infill arranged in a herringbone pattern, topped with an old plain-tile roof and brick stacks. They are two storeys high with an attic and have a six-window range, including a cross-wing on the right.
The entrance includes plank doors located to the left, left of center, and right of center. There are angled bays supported by brackets with ovolo moulded wood mullions on the left, left of center, right of center, and at the end of the cross-wing. The first floor has a jetty with shaped and carved main brackets, a two-light wood mullion window to the left, and three two-light wood mullion windows to the right. Additional angled bays with ovolo moulded wood mullions and false gables are found at the center and left of center. The cross-gables feature banded fishscale tile-hanging and two-light wood casements, with the gable end of the cross-wing on the right also displaying banded fishscale tile-hanging and a two-light wood casement. A gabled full dormer is located on the left, with an end stack to the left, a shaped ridge stack at the center, and a ridge stack to the right of center.
Inside No. 1 Church Close, there is a straight flight staircase with winders, ovolo moulded spine beams with decorative end stops on both the ground and first floors, and an open fireplace on the first floor left of center featuring a rendered-brick chamfered Tudor arch and a fragmentary arabesque wall painting above.
Local climate
29 and 31, Main Road 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 81% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- 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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