Looker House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
Looker House
- WRENN ID
- heavy-courtyard-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Looker House, 79, the Causeway, Steventon, OX13 6SQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 467 917
- Coordinates
- 51.62235, -1.32633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
House. It was likely built in the mid-16th century, with later alterations. The lower part of the front has a stone rubble plinth. The upper part is timber-framed with painted brick infill, and has an old plain-tile roof. A large stone rubble stack, running across the side of the house to the right of centre, has two diagonally brick flues. The building is two storeys high and originally had three bays. There’s a four-panel door to the right of centre, with a flat hood above it. The windows are a mix of casements, except for a two-storey octagonal bay window to the left of centre, which has wood mullion and transom windows and a gabled roof. There’s a cross-gable to the left, featuring a braced queen-post roof truss. The interior has not been inspected, but is likely to be of interest. This listing also includes the part that was previously separately listed as No.77, The Causeway.
Local climate
Looker House 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 79% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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