17, Main Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1988. House.
17, Main Road
- WRENN ID
- peeling-rafter-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- 17, Main Road, Newton Purcell with Shelswell
- OS grid reference
- SP 625 307
- Coordinates
- 51.97139, -1.0903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
House located at 17 Main Road, built in the mid-18th century with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It features squared coursed limestone and a steeply pitched thatched roof with vergeboards. There are brick stacks at each end. The house has a two-unit plan and is two storeys high with a three-window range. The entrance, which is approximately central, has a panelled door with an arched stone head above it. On either side of the entrance are two-light metal casements set in wooden frames, also with arched stone heads. The windows have lead cames, crown glass, and wrought-iron casement fasteners. The first floor includes a single-light window and two similar two-light windows. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
17, Main Road 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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