Foundry House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1977. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Foundry House
- WRENN ID
- wild-banister-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Foundry House, Checkendon, RG8 0SP
- OS grid reference
- SU 663 830
- Coordinates
- 51.542, -1.04401
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Foundry House is a 17th-century cottage that features 19th-century windows. The building is constructed of flint with brick dressings on the right side and has a timber frame with brick infill on the left. It has a plain old tile roof and a brick chimney stack. The cottage has a two-unit plan and is one storey high with an attic, presenting a four-window range. The central entrance consists of a four-panel door topped by a gabled tile hood supported by brackets. There are three two-light casements on the ground floor and three-light casements to the right. The roof has three gabled dormers and is half-hipped with a central stack. The left side of the building reveals an exposed cruck truss. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Foundry 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 80% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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