Bleak House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Bleak House
- WRENN ID
- strange-chapel-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bleak House, 34, Church Street, Great Faringdon, SN7 8AD
- OS grid reference
- SU 290 957
- Coordinates
- 51.65988, -1.58147
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bleak House is an early 19th-century tall house built of rubble stone with brick dressings, located on the south side of Church Street in Great Faringdon. The building has a basement and three storeys, topped with a stone tiled eaves roof featuring fretted eaves boards and barge-boards. The end wall stacks are made of corniced ashlar, and there are brick angles and window surrounds. The house has a three-window range, with arched heads on the first and second floor windows, as well as the centre ground floor window on the north front. The ground and first floor windows feature stone keys, and the windows are glazing bar sash types. The centre ground and first floor windows on the north front are blank. The south front has a central flat-headed door with a margin-light fanlight and a tent canopy that extends across the centre and east side, supported by three iron columns with a fretted pelmet. Small hoods over the first floor windows have been removed. There is a later rear extension on the west side.
Local climate
Bleak House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 1 application
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