Greystone Stores is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. House, shop, dwelling.

Greystone Stores

WRENN ID
endless-joist-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 July 1963
Type
House, shop, dwelling
Address
Greystone Stores, High Street, Little Milton
OS grid reference
SP 619 008
Coordinates
51.70304, -1.10528
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Greystone Stores is a house that has been converted into a shop and dwelling, dating from the early 17th century. It is built from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a thatched roof with brick stacks. The building has two storeys plus attics and a three-window front. On the first floor, there are stone-mullioned windows with three, two, and three lights, all under cyma-moulded labels, although the central window is now blocked. The ground floor openings have been altered, likely in the 19th century, with painted keystone arches and quoins. To the left of the central door is a shop window, while to the right, a casement window retains the jambs from a former three-light mullioned window. The central stack has three diagonal brick shafts on a stone base. The gable walls feature three-light stone-mullioned windows on all three floors, most of which are now blocked or obscured by a buttress to the right. The rear also has similar windows.

Inside, the cellar to the right has chamfered and stopped beams supported on a central post, along with a three-light stone-mullioned window that is now below ground level. The beams in the main rooms are heavily moulded, and one has a recessed soffit. A dog-leg stair, which runs alongside the massive stack, survives only from the first floor to the attics. The main range has a three-bay roof with two rows of butt purlins, and the right truss features arched struts rising from the collar. The former barn at the rear has been almost completely destroyed by fire.

Local climate

Greystone Stores 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 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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