Archangel House and Rear Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1966. A C16 House, vicarage. 4 related planning applications.
Archangel House and Rear Wall
- WRENN ID
- rooted-tower-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1966
- Type
- House, vicarage
- Address
- Archangel House and Rear Wall, Abingdon Road, Cumnor, OX2 9QN
- OS grid reference
- SP 461 041
- Coordinates
- 51.73439, -1.33245
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Archangel House is a house, formerly known as The Vicarage and The Vicarage Flat, dating from the early to mid-16th century. It was extended in the early 17th century, altered in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and received a rear addition around 1840. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, with a gabled concrete tile roof. A large stone ridge stack with a brick flue is present, and the cross wing has a rear end stack finished in brick. The building has a three-unit plan, with a right-hand cross wing. It is two storeys high and has a four-window front. A timber lintel sits above a 20th-century door adjoining the cross wing. Plain stone architraves frame an early 19th-century eight-pane sash window, two six-pane sashes, and a six-pane sash within a gabled half-dormer above and to the left of the door. The left bay has timber lintels over late 18th-century tripartite sash windows. The front gable of the cross wing has flat rendered arches above 19th-century two-light casements. A 17th/early 18th-century extension to the rear of the cross wing is built of similar materials and is one storey high with an attic. A two-storey brick range was added to the rear around 1840. The interior features late 18th-century panelled doors and shutters. Chamfered beams are present in two rooms to the left, including a room with a large stack and panelling. An early 19th-century straight-flight staircase is located in a large hall to the left of the cross wing. The room above the hall has a partially-exposed queen-post truss to the right of a hollow-chamfered arch-braced collar-truss. A tall 18th-century wall extends from the rear left wall, enclosing the rear garden. The wall is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a chequer brick inner face.
Local climate
Archangel House and Rear Wall 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 — 10 transactions since 1995
- 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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