The Old Sweet Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Old Sweet Shop
- WRENN ID
- low-grate-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Sweet Shop, Netting Street, Hook Norton, OX15 5NP
- OS grid reference
- SP 352 331
- Coordinates
- 51.99583, -1.48745
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Sweet Shop is a house that was previously a shop, dating from the 17th century. It is constructed of regularly coursed ironstone rubble and has a 20th-century tile roof. The building features one brick end stack set on a stone base and has a two-unit plan. It stands two storeys high with an attic. On the ground floor, there is a three-light casement window with a stop-chamfered wooden lintel, while the first floor has two three-light casement windows, each with wooden lintels. The shop front includes a bay window with a tiled canopy and there are two doorways. Inside, the building has stop-chamfered beams and a fireplace with a bressumer.
Local climate
The Old Sweet Shop receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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