Pomander House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. House. 1 related planning application.
Pomander House
- WRENN ID
- little-belfry-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pomander House, Townsend, Harwell, OX11 0DX
- OS grid reference
- SU 493 895
- Coordinates
- 51.60281, -1.28845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pomander House is a house dating from the 16th century, with alterations made around 1925. It features a plinth made of uncoursed rubble stone and large timber framing with angle braces on the first floor, which has 20th-century brick infill. The roof is thatched, and there are brick ridge stacks located to the left and right of the central storey. The house has a three-window range, with a two-storey, single-window addition on the right and a single-storey, single-bay addition on the left. The ground and first floors on the left have 2-light casements with leaded lights, while all other openings feature 3-light casements with leaded lights, except for a 4-light casement in the addition on the left. There is a 20th-century door leading to a porch on the left return, and a full cruck is visible on the left return. The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest.
Local climate
Pomander 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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