12-13, Oxford Street is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1970. House. 1 related planning application.
12-13, Oxford Street
- WRENN ID
- stony-floor-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- 12-13, Oxford Street, South Swindon, SN1 5DA
- OS grid reference
- SU 146 848
- Coordinates
- 51.56269, -1.78948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of cottages forming part of a terrace, built between 1853 and 1854 for the Great Western Railway Company. The cottages are constructed from ashlar limestone, set in black mortar, and have slate roofs with brick stacks. Each cottage is two storeys high, with a single bay and a through passage to the side. They feature chamfered window and door surrounds, the door surrounds having splayed stops. The windows are C20 replacements, consisting of four panes per sash, and the doors are also C20, with fifteen panes. These cottages were part of a larger village designed by I.K. Brunel to house workers for the Great Western Railway works and were constructed in phases between 1842 and 1855, reflecting the financial difficulties of the building contractors. The village was acquired by the local authority in 1966 and subsequently restored. It is considered one of Britain’s best-preserved and most ambitious railway settlements.
Local climate
12-13, Oxford Street receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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 — 4 transactions since 2005
- 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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