The Knowl is a Grade II* listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Knowl
- WRENN ID
- moated-span-nettle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Knowl, 52, Stert Street, Abingdon on Thames, OX14 3JU
- OS grid reference
- SU 497 972
- Coordinates
- 51.672, -1.2818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Knowl is a 16th-century house with a front elevation dating from the 17th or early 18th century. It is two storeys high with attics and features a stuccoed main elevation and a tiled roof. The building has three gabled dormers with modern leaded casements. The main front has five windows beneath a coved eaves cornice, featuring early glazing bars and double-hung sash windows with moulded frames. On the ground floor, there are four windows with a bolection moulded frieze and a moulded cornice. The central door is flanked by grooved pilasters and is topped with a triglyph and guttae frieze adorned with four trophies of arms, leading to a semi-circular pediment with an ornamented cornice.
On the Stert Street elevation, the building has a two-storey overhang supported by carved brackets. The plinth features ornamental lozenge patterns in rough rendering. There is one window on the second floor, which is a casement with modern leaded panes and a small cornice. The first floor has one flush framed sash window with glazing bars.
To the left of the main elevation is a two-storey former stable block with a slate roof. This section has four casement windows on the ground floor, with a brick ground floor and an upper storey that is rendered. It includes one door, one carriage door, and a three-light window on the ground floor. This stable block is now part of the house premises.
Historically, The Knowl was one of the locations where Royal Proclamations were read.
Local climate
The Knowl 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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