South House Plus Attached Wall and 3 Gatepiers is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. House. 3 related planning applications.

South House Plus Attached Wall and 3 Gatepiers

WRENN ID
lunar-bailey-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cherwell
Constituency
Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 December 1955
Type
House
Address
South House Plus Attached Wall and 3 Gatepiers, the Green, Adderbury, OX17 3NE
OS grid reference
SP 474 356
Coordinates
52.01683, -1.31039
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

South House, built in 1824 and altered and extended in the late 19th century, is a substantial house located on The Green in Adderbury East. The attached wall and three gatepiers date from the late 17th century. The house features marlstone ashlar and coursed squared rubble, with brick and Welsh-slate roofs, and has both three-storey and two-storey sections. The main range has a three-window ashlar front, with four-light sash windows on the ground and first floors, except for a late 19th-century tripartite sash to the left of the entrance. The second floor has shorter 12-pane sashes. A rendered and painted cornice and plain parapet conceal a shallow-pitched roof with gable parapets and ashlar stacks. The late 19th-century ashlar porch has an arched entrance and side sashes, along with a stone entablature. The hipped-roofed brick rear wing contains additional sashes. The interior has not been inspected.

To the right of the house, there is a rubble wall approximately 2 metres high, featuring a three-course triangular coping and a gateway with early 19th-century iron gates. This wall is flanked by two large square limestone-ashlar piers with chamfered plinths, cornices, and large ball finials. The wall extends about 30 metres to another gatepier, which serves as part of the entrance to The Orchard. The walls and gatepiers were originally part of the large 16th and 17th-century Mansion of the Cobb family, which was demolished in 1815. A stone inscribed with the year 1582 has been re-set in one of the gatepiers.

Local climate

South House Plus Attached Wall and 3 Gatepiers 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 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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