Gate House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. House.
Gate House
- WRENN ID
- swift-rafter-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gate House, 29, Couching Street, Watlington
- OS grid reference
- SU 689 944
- Coordinates
- 51.64448, -1.00529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gate House is a house from the mid-18th century. It has a colourwashed brick and rendered front, with colourwashed flint and brick dressings on the sides. The roof is gabled and covered with old tiles, and there is a brick ridge stack. The building has a two-unit plan and is one storey with an attic, featuring a one-window range. The door and window are from the 20th century, while there is a segmental arch over a 19th-century two-light iron casement window on the first floor. Segmental brick arches are present over the 20th-century door and a two-light leaded casement in the left side wall. Inside, there are 20th-century features, but the original joists in the ceiling remain. At the back, there is a one-storey range that was originally a timber-framed stable, made of flint rubble with brick dressings and an old tile gabled roof. This range has a two-bay queen-post and queen-strut roof with clasped purlins. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Gate 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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