Willowbrook is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. House. 6 related planning applications.
Willowbrook
- WRENN ID
- rough-bailey-hazel
- 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
- Willowbrook, Church Lane, Harwell, OX11 0EZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 492 889
- Coordinates
- 51.59725, -1.2903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willowbrook is a house located on Church Lane in Harwell. It dates back to the early 14th century on the right side and was encased in 18th-century brick. The house was extended around 1560. The ground floor features 18th-century brickwork, while the first floor has close-studded timber framing with rendered infill. The roof is hipped and covered with old plain tiles, and there are brick ridge stacks on the left and to the right of the center. The house has two storeys and an attic, with a five-window range.
A 20th-century plank door is situated to the right of the center. The ground floor has 20th-century three-light casements, except for a two-light casement with a segmental brick head and a single-light casement to the right, along with an 11-pane window to the left. The first floor features three-light wood casements on the left, center, and right, as well as two-light wood casements to the left and right of the center. There are also two gabled full dormers. Although the interior was not inspected, it is noted to have original fireplaces on both the ground and first floors, along with the survival of an original corridor leading to the first floor.
Local climate
Willowbrook 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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