Highcroft House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Highcroft House
- WRENN ID
- winter-chimney-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Highcroft House, Tanners Lane, Eynsham
- OS grid reference
- SP 436 094
- Coordinates
- 51.78212, -1.3689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highcroft House is a late 18th-century house, extended in 1907 by Clough Williams Ellis. It is constructed of squared and coursed limestone with ashlar quoins and dressings, with a gabled and half-hipped Welsh slate roof. Brick stacks are on the left end and the rear lateral side. The house has an L-shaped plan with a rear right wing.
The main block is in a late Georgian style, with three storeys and a three-window front. A stone Tuscan porch provides access to a six-panelled door with an overlight. The windows are predominantly eight-pane sashes, with a six-pane sash in the centre and an early 20th-century tripartite sash to the left of the porch. The rear service wing is of similar materials and has three-light leaded casements. A 20th-century conservatory is attached to the right.
The extension to the left, designed by Clough Williams Ellis in 1907, is in a Wrenaissance style. It is a two-storey, two-window range with leaded cross windows, a round-arched doorway, a moulded cornice, and a hipped roof topped by an ogee-domed bell cupola.
The interior of the original house features a dog-leg staircase with stick balusters, panelled doors, boxed beams, and a reeded stone fireplace on the first floor. The service wing has stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The 1907 range incorporates reset stained-glass panels and a line doorway with a cherub's head set over a shouldered architrave in a ground-floor room.
Local climate
Highcroft House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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