4, London Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1970. A C17 House.
4, London Road
- WRENN ID
- leaning-chapel-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- 4, London Road, Bicester, OX26 6DZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 586 222
- Coordinates
- 51.89617, -1.14978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 London Road is a house that has been converted into part of a hotel. It dates from the 17th century and was altered in the 18th century. The building is constructed from part-rendered limestone rubble with some brick detailing, topped by an old plain-tile roof featuring a rubble-and-brick ridge stack. It has a three-unit plan and stands two storeys tall, with attics, and is partly raised to three storeys.
The front elevation, which is rendered, has two windows on the upper floors that contain 12-pane sash windows. The ground floor features two wider windows and a doorway. The right gable wall has similar windows. The lower third bay on the left side is obscured by No. 6, but its left gable wall shows a rubble construction with three-light casements across three floors. There is a small one-storey rubble wing attached to the gable wall, likely dating from the 18th century. A 17th-century rubble-based stack is located to the left of the higher roof and has three diagonal stacks. The rear of the building has brick dressings on the raised section. Inside, there is a winder stair that rises to the attics behind the main stack.
Local climate
4, London Road 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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