Seldom Seen is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. House.
Seldom Seen
- WRENN ID
- stranded-mullion-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Seldom Seen, 41, Leys Road, Cumnor
- OS grid reference
- SP 456 041
- Coordinates
- 51.73439, -1.34081
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Seldom Seen is a house dating from the 17th century, likely early in the period. It is constructed from uncoursed limestone rubble and features a gabled thatched roof. The house has a large external end stack made of stone that steps from the base, with a flue of dressed stone finished in brick and a tiled bread oven at the rear. There is also a right end stack made of stone finished in brick.
The building has a three-unit plan, is one storey high with an attic, and has a four-window range. The front includes a 20th-century door, a blocked door, and 20th-century casement windows, along with 20th-century dormer casements. There is a 20th-century bay window to the right, made from similar materials.
Inside, there is a stop-chamfered beam and bressumer over an open fireplace in the room to the left, and a chamfered beam and bressumer over an open fireplace in the room to the right. The roof features collar trusses and is steeply pitched.
Local climate
Seldom Seen 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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