Unicorn Hotel is a Grade II* listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1952. Inn. 4 related planning applications.
Unicorn Hotel
- WRENN ID
- rooted-corbel-fern
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1952
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Unicorn Hotel, 20, Market Place, Banbury, OX16 5LJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 455 406
- Coordinates
- 52.06213, -1.33642
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Unicorn Hotel is an inn dating from the mid-17th century, with a later 18th-century addition on the left side. The right part of the building features a mix of construction materials, including a painted brick ground floor and a stuccoed first floor, topped with a slate roof and a brick ridge stack. The inn is two storeys high and has a single-window width. On the ground floor, there are two casement windows flanking the porch, while the first floor has a five-light casement window and a rendered casement window in the attic dormer. An external staircase leads to the left part of the building. Inside, notable features include a wooden winder stair, a blocked wooden mullioned window from the 17th century with original glass, a plank door, and stop-chamfered beams.
Local climate
Unicorn Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% 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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- 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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