Robert Atkins and Powdrell is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1969. Office. 1 related planning application.
Robert Atkins and Powdrell
- WRENN ID
- gentle-remnant-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1969
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Robert Atkins and Powdrell, 43 and 44, North Bar Street, Banbury, OX16 0TH
- OS grid reference
- SP 454 406
- Coordinates
- 52.06277, -1.33903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 43 and 44 on North Bar Street in Banbury are a house now used as offices, dating from the early 18th century with later alterations and additions to the rear. The building features a rusticated ground floor and stuccoed first and second floors, topped with a slate roof and brick end stacks, one of which has a rendered base. It stands three storeys high and has a three-window range.
The off-centre doorway on the left has panelled reveals, fluted imitation pilasters, and a hood supported by consoles, with a 20th-century door. This doorway is flanked by sash windows with glazing bars, each having a four-pane width and moulded stone surrounds. To the right is another doorway with a 20th-century door and a moulded stone surround. A moulded band runs along the first floor, where there are three sash windows with moulded stone surrounds and glazing bars. The second floor mirrors this with three similar windows.
Inside No. 43, there is a dog-leg staircase with square newels, a fireplace with a bressumer, part of a wooden winder stair, and chamfered beams.
Local climate
Robert Atkins and Powdrell 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings