The Old Post Office, Beech View, Harris Cottage and The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1987. A Late C18 Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office, Beech View, Harris Cottage and The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-span-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Beech View, Harris Cottage and The Old Forge, Manor Road, Sandford St Martin, Sandford St. Martin, OX7 7AG
- OS grid reference
- SP 420 265
- Coordinates
- 51.93574, -1.38925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office, Beech View Cottage, Harris Cottage, and The Old Forge form a row of four cottages dating to the late 18th century, and possibly incorporating earlier elements. They are constructed from limestone and marlstone rubble with wooden lintels, and have a Welsh-slate roof with brick ridge stacks. The cottages have one- and two-unit plans, and likely include rear outshuts.
The cottages have two storeys, with two-window fronts. The external cottages have central doors positioned between three-light casement windows. The inner pair of cottages have adjoining doors and a single ground floor casement window. All first-floor windows are of two lights. The casement windows are old and mostly retain leaded glazing. The Old Forge has stop-chamfered lintels, and Beech View Cottage features a heavy chamfered oak doorframe. The shallow-pitched, half-hipped roof has two shared stacks.
The interiors have not been inspected. The group is included on the list for their group value.
Local climate
The Old Post Office, Beech View, Harris Cottage and The Old Forge receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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