Northcourt House and Tatham House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. School. 6 related planning applications.
Northcourt House and Tatham House
- WRENN ID
- sharp-turret-cobweb
- 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
- School
- Address
- Northcourt House and Tatham House, Northcourt Lane, Abingdon on Thames, OX14 1PN
- OS grid reference
- SU 500 982
- Coordinates
- 51.68094, -1.27771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Northcourt House and Tatham House are a former school, dated 1805, and situated on Northcourt Lane, Northcourt. The building is square in plan, with a later extension to the north-west. It was built by Henry Knapp (died 1825) and his wife, Anne, whose memorial is located in St Helen’s Church, Abingdon.
The main building is three storeys high, constructed of chequered brick with rubble cellars. It has a Welsh slate hipped roof concealed behind a small parapet above a stone moulded cornice with modillions. The east-facing entrance features a square stone porch with a quatrefoil balustrade and brick finials. A long segmental arch spans the first and second floors, with double-hung sash windows with glazing bars to the right of the arch and two blocked windows to the left on each storey. All windows are arched with red brick. To the south, the windows have blind boxes, except for those on the ground floor.
Inside, the building contains a contemporary staircase and fireplaces.
Local climate
Northcourt House and Tatham 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.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- 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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