The White Horse Public House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
The White Horse Public House
- WRENN ID
- veiled-fireplace-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The White Horse Public House, Wheatley Road, Forest Hill with Shotover, OX33 1EH
- OS grid reference
- SP 585 079
- Coordinates
- 51.76698, -1.15255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Horse Public House is a late 17th/early 18th century building in Forest Hill, near Shotover, situated on Wheatley Road. It is constructed of colourwashed limestone rubble with timber lintels, and has a plain-tile roof with a brick ridge stack. The building follows a 3-unit lobby-entry plan.
The front elevation features a central entrance, with a 20th-century rubble and tiled porch. To the left of the entrance is a horizontal sliding sash window, and to the right a 3-light casement window. Further to the right are two smaller windows, one of which was probably originally a door. Two small 2-light gabled dormers are visible in the attic. The roof is half-hipped to the right side, and the brick ridge stack has a rounded brick string course.
A single-storey unit to the left has a door and a small-pane 2-light casement window, and its roof partially conceals the remains of a stone label over a blocked window in the left gable of the main range. The interior features open fireplaces with timber bressumers. The lower range is believed to have formerly been a smithy.
Local climate
The White Horse Public 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2010
- 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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