Banbury Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1969. Museum, former offices. 4 related planning applications.
Banbury Museum
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-mullion-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1969
- Type
- Museum, former offices
- Address
- Banbury Museum, 8, Horse Fair, OX16 0AA
- OS grid reference
- SP 453 403
- Coordinates
- 52.05994, -1.34001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Banbury Museum is an office building originally constructed for the Poor Law Guardians in 1900, designed by W.E. Mills of Banbury. It is built of ironstone ashlar with a stone slate roof, a stone stack at the right end, and stone copings. The building is in a Jacobean style and has two storeys and a three-window range. The central entrance features a panelled door within rusticated stone surrounds and a scrolled pediment with a cartouche. It is flanked by four-light stone-mullioned and transomed windows with square heads. The first floor has three similar windows, with a semi-circular ornamental gable above. A parapet and moulded bands are also present. Inside, there is an open well staircase.
Local climate
Banbury Museum 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- 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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