Wheatsheaf Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1969. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
Wheatsheaf Inn
- WRENN ID
- ragged-span-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1969
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Wheatsheaf Inn, 68, George Street, Banbury, OX16 5BH
- OS grid reference
- SP 455 404
- Coordinates
- 52.06084, -1.33647
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wheatsheaf Inn is a house that has been converted into a public house, likely dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It is constructed from regular coursed ironstone rubble and features a steeply pitched slate roof with brick end stacks and stone copings. The building has two storeys plus an attic and presents a four-window range in an L-plan layout.
The central entrance to the courtyard has panelled double doors topped with a wood lintel. On the ground floor, there are three renewed windows, also with wood lintels. The first floor features three 3-light wood-mullioned windows with opening casements, along with two gabled roof dormers that have opening casements. The rear courtyard is paved with cobblestones, and the right rear wing includes a window with fragmentary remains of a stone mullion, as well as a 19th-century bow window. Inside, there is a notable 4-centred arched fireplace located in the ground floor bar.
Local climate
Wheatsheaf Inn 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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