Thames House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1970. Shop, dwelling. 1 related planning application.
Thames House
- WRENN ID
- iron-cobalt-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1970
- Type
- Shop, dwelling
- Address
- Thames House, 14, Market Square, Bicester, OX26 6AD
- OS grid reference
- SP 585 224
- Coordinates
- 51.8971, -1.15084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thames House is a shop and dwelling, now used as shops and offices, likely built in the early 18th century. It features a combination of limestone ashlar and rubble, with roughcast timber framing and plain-tile roofs that have brick gable stacks. The building has a double-depth plan with a short rear wing and stands two storeys high plus an attic. The roughcast front displays a richly-moulded wooden cornice and has four tall windows that are irregularly spaced on the first floor, along with three flat-headed roof dormers that also have moulded cornices. The shop fronts are from the 20th century. The left gable wall is made of ashlar and has a pair of narrow windows on the first floor. The roof is steep-pitched and has two spans. The rear of the building is constructed of rubble and features a short wing that returns from the right end. Inside, there is a large stair hall on the first floor that contains an early 19th-century staircase with a ramped handrail and turned newels.
Local climate
Thames House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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- No sale records on file
- 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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