40 and 42, Ock Street is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1970. House. 4 related planning applications.
40 and 42, Ock Street
- WRENN ID
- seventh-doorway-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- 40 and 42, Ock Street, Abingdon on Thames, OX14 5BZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 494 970
- Coordinates
- 51.66985, -1.28659
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 40 and 42 on Ock Street are a pair of buildings that were rebuilt in the late 19th century, designed in a "half timbered" style similar to No. 38 nearby. The rear of the buildings suggests they may have an earlier core dating back to the 18th century or earlier. The exterior is roughly rendered and consists of three storeys.
There are three slightly projecting double sash windows supported by three carved brackets, topped by a small dentil cornice. A smaller window is located in the gable end. Between the ground and first floor, above the public house windows, there is a dentil cornice and frieze. The right-hand door features six panels and is set within a pilastered architrave with a pediment. The building has a rendered plinth, and the left-hand door is six fielded panels with a rectangular four-light fanlight in a moulded architrave, also with a dentil cornice. The eaves have a modillion cornice and tile barge-boarding. At the rear, the building is constructed of brick with an old tile roof and has two storeys.
Nos. 34 to 42 form a group.
Local climate
40 and 42, Ock Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- 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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