Launton House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Launton House
- WRENN ID
- broken-span-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Launton House, West End, OX26 5EB
- OS grid reference
- SP 608 224
- Coordinates
- 51.89702, -1.11688
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Launton House is a substantial late 18th-century house, likely built for John Ashby. It is constructed of brick in Flemish bond with limestone-ashlar dressings and features old plain-tile roofs with brick end stacks. The building has an L-plan and stands three storeys tall. The symmetrical front has three windows and a central doorway, which is framed by a triangular-pedimented and pilastered stone doorcase. The doorway contains a six-panel door with an ornamental overlight and panelled reveals, and all windows have moulded stone architraves. The ground and first-floor windows are fitted with 12-pane sashes, while the second-floor windows have 6-pane sashes. The doorway is partly covered by a glazed canopy supported by 19th-century cast-iron columns. An ashlar plinth and brick parapet extend around the sides, returning on the left to the rear wing. The left side features projecting stacks flanking pairs of sashes with rubbed and gauged flat arches, and the rear has similar windows. The house was noted as existing in 1797.
Local climate
Launton 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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