Dawbers House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1986. House.

Dawbers House

WRENN ID
pale-lintel-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1986
Type
House
Address
Dawbers House, Wilson Close, Long Wittenham
OS grid reference
SU 544 936
Coordinates
51.63947, -1.21519
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dawber's House is a house built around 1911 by Guy Dawber for himself. It features red brick construction and a complex old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. The house has a complex plan and is two stories high with a four-window range. The central entrance has a sash door framed by a wood architrave surround with a pediment. The windows are irregularly placed and consist of metal leaded casements. There are end and lateral stacks with moulded brick bases and caps. At the rear, there is a central loggia beneath a catslide roof, flanked by gabled cross-wings on both sides.

Inside, the entrance hall has a moulded plaster border on the ceiling. There is a straight flight and winder staircase with a lattice balustrade. The sitting room on the left features a shallow arched ceiling with moulded plaster bands and a Georgian-style stone fireplace. The study, originally the dining room, is located at the rear right and has a deeply ribbed wood ceiling, an artisan-style stone fireplace with bronze medallions, and a fitted sideboard in the window recess with later doors at the base. The house retains original panelled doors with brass door furniture.

Local climate

Dawbers House 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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