Took House,Including Part of Green Fingers Garden Shop is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1990. House and shop. 5 related planning applications.

Took House,Including Part of Green Fingers Garden Shop

WRENN ID
quiet-gable-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 May 1990
Type
House and shop
Address
Took House,Including Part of Green Fingers Garden Shop, Sheep Street, Charlbury, OX7 3RR
OS grid reference
SP 357 194
Coordinates
51.87246, -1.482
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an 18th-century house, now a house and shop, located in Sheep Street, Charlbury. The house is constructed of coursed squared rubble, with timber lintels and a stone slate roof. It is two storeys and an attic, with a three-window front. The right-hand door is flanked by a 20th-century square-fronted shop window with glazing bars and two casement windows with glazing bars. The first floor has one window with sashes and glazing bars to the right, and two 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars to the left. There are two rendered gabled dormers with casements. A rear chimney is present. The interior features a 20th-century newel stair, which replaces an earlier one. Part of the house forms a flying freehold above part of Green Fingers Garden Shop.

Local climate

Took House,Including Part of Green Fingers Garden Shop receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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  • Sale history — 8 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 5 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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