The Coseners House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1971. House. 7 related planning applications.
The Coseners House
- WRENN ID
- turning-cobalt-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Coseners House, Abbey Close, Abingdon on Thames, OX14 3JD
- OS grid reference
- SU 500 970
- Coordinates
- 51.66965, -1.27784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Coseners House, formerly known as "The Abbey," is an 18th and 19th century house consisting of two buildings. The main building, dating from the 18th century, is three storeys high and constructed of blue brick with red brick dressings. It features a parapet and a band between the storeys. There are three windows with red brick architraves, and the top floor has segmental arches with moulded wood flush frames and double hung sashes that include glazing bars. On the first floor, two three-light windows in segmental recesses flank a segmental arched window. The ground floor has two similar windows on either side of a six-panel door set in a panelled wood architrave, which is topped by a glass fanlight and a moulded brick pediment. To the right, there is a matching later extension.
The left wing of the building is two storeys high and made of red and blue brick from the 18th century. It has a parapet and cornice, a tile roof, three windows, a band between the storeys, and a cornice. The entrance features a nine-panel door in an architrave with a pedimented brick hood supported by consoles, and the left window has a flat arch with a double hung sash and glazing bars. To the right, there is a rectangular bay with a brick plinth, double sashes with glazing bars, and a wood bolection moulded frieze and cornice. A one-storey later addition with a hipped slate roof is located to the left, featuring double hung sash windows with glazing bars in elliptical recesses and a red brick architrave. The garden elevation has two gables. Inside, there is a staircase and gallery with alternate straight and spiral turned balusters, along with panelled walls.
Local climate
The Coseners 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 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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