Old Town Hall (Chapman Brothers) is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1986. Town hall.
Old Town Hall (Chapman Brothers)
- WRENN ID
- dark-chalk-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1986
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Old Town Hall (Chapman Brothers), Lower Cherwell Street, Banbury
- OS grid reference
- SP 459 403
- Coordinates
- 52.05967, -1.33066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Town Hall, now a warehouse, was originally built in 1790 and was resited and rebuilt around 1860. It is constructed of brick and features a hipped slate roof. The building has two storeys and is pedimented, with a five-bay blocked arcade on the ground floor. The first floor has a blocked semi-circular headed window, and the roof includes the base of a cupola. The Old Town Hall was relocated from the Market Place to its current site by the canal around 1860.
Local climate
Old Town Hall (Chapman Brothers) 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 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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