The Oxford Arms Public House and Adjoining Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. Public house and cottage.
The Oxford Arms Public House and Adjoining Cottage
- WRENN ID
- former-zinc-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1987
- Type
- Public house and cottage
- OS grid reference
- SP 498 195
- Coordinates
- 51.87217, -1.27667
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Oxford Arms Public House and adjoining cottage is a public house and cottage built in the early 18th century and late 18th to early 19th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble, partly squared and coursed, with some wooden lintels. The roofs are thatched and made of Welsh slate, featuring rubble and brick stacks. The building has a two-unit lobby-entry plan and has been extended, while the cottage is a single unit.
The public house is two storeys tall with a taller, slated four-window main range. The entrance, located in the second bay, is framed by a 20th-century porch. The windows on both floors are 12-pane horned sashes with stone flat arches, although the window above the doorway is now blocked. A large stack with a rubble base and projecting weathering is aligned with the entrance. To the right, there is a later three-window range that has been significantly altered.
The thatched cottage on the left is built of random rubble and features a two-light casement window on each floor, along with a doorway at the extreme left, all having wooden lintels. The stack against the gable of the public house has a rendered rubble base. Inside the public house, there are open fireplaces in the central stack and chamfered beams.
Local climate
The Oxford Arms Public House and Adjoining Cottage 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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