Cobb House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. Residential. 7 related planning applications.

Cobb House

WRENN ID
graven-cloister-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Type
Residential
Address
Cobb House, Church Close, Bampton, OX18 2LW
OS grid reference
SP 312 033
Coordinates
51.72819, -1.54952
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cobb House is a former vicarage that has been converted into a house. It originated in the 17th century, with an early 18th-century wing to the north and a large extension added in the late 18th century. The building was refurbished in the early 1980s. It features coursed rubble limestone with dressed quoins, and the exterior was previously roughcast. The roofs are made of stone slate, hipped over the 18th-century blocks, and the brick chimneys were rebuilt in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The house has two storeys, with the late 18th-century block at the front having two bays to the south and four to the east. It includes three-pane sash windows with timber lintels, and the ground floor windows on the east front are full-height. The south front has a tripartite sash window on the left side of the ground floor and a four-pane sash in an altered opening on the right side. Access is through an early 20th-century lean-to wooden porch on the west front.

The early 18th-century wing is lower and features three bays of three-pane sashes on the first floor of the east front, along with a 20th-century top-hung casement window on the ground floor to the left. There are also 20th-century French doors connecting to the later 18th-century block. At the rear, there is a passage extension. Projecting to the west is an altered 17th-century gabled wing, which has two storeys and an attic, along with a late 18th or 19th-century two-storey bow window that has leaded casements. Inside, the late 18th-century block contains an early 19th-century reeded marble fireplace.

Local climate

Cobb House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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.

More on this building

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 7 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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