Abbey Timbers is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1988. House. 4 related planning applications.
Abbey Timbers
- WRENN ID
- white-facade-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Abbey Timbers, Broadway, Harwell, OX11 0LA
- OS grid reference
- SU 490 887
- Coordinates
- 51.59566, -1.29295
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Timbers is a house dating from the early 15th century, with alterations in later periods. The house has a brick plinth and large timber framing, incorporating tension braces and rendered infill sections, with an old plain-tile roof and brick ridge stacks positioned in the centre and to the right. The main range is two storeys and four bays, set at a right angle to the road. A 20th-century door is located to the right of the centre, protected by a 20th-century open porch. The window openings are irregular, featuring 20th-century leaded-light casements. A cross-gable is present to the right, with weatherboarding. The left return side, facing the road, shows a jettied first floor. The interior of the cross-wing to the right is characterized by massive cruck trusses.
Local climate
Abbey Timbers 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
- 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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