Glenthorne House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.

Glenthorne House

WRENN ID
tattered-dormer-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Glenthorne House, 174, High Street, Burford, OX18 4QY
OS grid reference
SP 250 119
Coordinates
51.80606, -1.6377
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Glenthorne House is a house that dates back to the 14th century and was remodeled in the 17th century, with a front that may have been added in the mid-19th century in an 18th-century style, possibly attributed to Christopher Kempster. The building features a freestone front with plain ashlar raised quoins, while the rest is made of rubble. It has Cotswold stone roofs and ashlar end chimneys.

The front of the house is two storeys high with a parapet and stands on a plinth. It has three bays, with the outer bays paired and fitted with glazing-bar sash windows in raised flat surrounds that include cock-beads and keystones. There are simple offset courses acting as a cornice. The central entrance features a four-panel door with stone brackets supporting a flat hood. Adjacent to the south gable return is a gabled stair-turret, along with lower one- and two-storey extensions that have mullion windows.

Inside, there is a late 14th-century small pointed doorway aligned with the entrance, featuring wave moulding. A late medieval fireplace has moulded corbels supporting a simple hood, and the bressumer on the north side is moulded with traces of painted decoration. The floor joists are double-chamfered, and there is a newel stair in the turret. Remnants of Jacobean panelling can be found on the first-floor landing. The attribution to Kempster is considered unlikely. As of 1761, the building was still functioning as an inn, known as The Star Inn, and cobbles discovered below the right-hand bay suggest it may have served as a coach entry.

Local climate

Glenthorne House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 transaction since 2005
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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