Central Stores (Middle Block) is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1984. Shop.
Central Stores (Middle Block)
- WRENN ID
- former-gable-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1984
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Central Stores (Middle Block), High Street, Hook Norton, OX15 5NQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 355 331
- Coordinates
- 51.99574, -1.48295
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Central Stores (Middle Block) is a house that has been converted into a shop. It was built from coursed ironstone rubble and features a Welsh slate roof, with a brick lateral stack located at the rear. The building has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys tall, plus an attic. It has a two-window range, with 20th-century windows on both the ground and first floors, each with wooden lintels. There is a blocked doorway to the right of the ground floor window. In the attic storey, there is a long narrow workshop casement window with seven lights, which contains crown glass.
Local climate
Central Stores (Middle Block) 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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