Priests House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. A Georgian House.
Priests House
- WRENN ID
- muffled-wall-ivy
- 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
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Priests House, Britwell Salome
- OS grid reference
- SU 668 929
- Coordinates
- 51.63153, -1.0352
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Priest's House is a Grade II listed building located in Britwell, dating from the mid to late 18th century. It consists of two ranges, with the left range being a later addition. The structure is built of Flemish bond brick featuring flared headers and has an old tile roof with brick stacks.
The house is two storeys high. The left range has a two-window layout, with a flat hood over a six-panelled door that includes an overlight and a segmental arch above a tripartite sash window. There are timber lintels over the first-floor tripartite sash and another sash window, along with dentilled eaves and a hipped roof that has an end stack. The right range is also two storeys and has a three-window layout, featuring 20th-century flat arches and timber lintels over horned six-pane sash windows. It has a raised storey band, dentilled eaves, and a gabled roof with end and rear lateral stacks.
At the rear right, there is a one-bay range constructed with similar materials, which includes sashes and an external end stack with tumbled-in brickwork. The interior was remodelled by David Hicks around 1963, but it has not been inspected.
Local climate
Priests 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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