Thornbury House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1981. House.
Thornbury House
- WRENN ID
- noble-lantern-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thornbury House, the Moors, Kidlington
- OS grid reference
- SP 493 145
- Coordinates
- 51.82732, -1.28562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thornbury House is a building located in Kidlington, originally shown on the Ordnance Survey map as County Council Offices. It dates from the early 19th century and is constructed of stuccoed limestone rubble with a gabled Welsh slate roof and moulded stone end stacks. The house is designed in a late Georgian style and has an L-plan layout with a rear right wing. It stands three storeys tall and features a symmetrical five-window range. The flat hood over the 20th-century door, which includes a fanlight, is supported by foliate-carved brackets. The windows are two-pane plate-glass sashes set in raised architraves, and the building has raised storey bands and a moulded cornice beneath the parapet. There is a stone ashlar porch to the rear left, which has moulded imposts and semi-circular arches leading to a loggia, along with a pierced stone balustrade. The interior has not been inspected, and the 20th-century extensions to the right are not of special architectural interest.
Local climate
Thornbury House 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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