Dodd Insurance Brokers is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1973. Office. 7 related planning applications.
Dodd Insurance Brokers
- WRENN ID
- bitter-pinnacle-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1973
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Dodd Insurance Brokers, Cornhill, Banbury, OX16 5NG
- OS grid reference
- SP 455 406
- Coordinates
- 52.06271, -1.33637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dodd Insurance Brokers is an office that was originally built as a house in 1866 by William Wilkinson of Oxford for W.J. Douglas, the owner of Castle House. The building is constructed from red, white, black, and blue brick, with dressings made from two different types of stone. It features a Gothic style with a hipped, slated roof adorned with finials and an ornamental ridge, along with brick twin-shafted lateral stacks. The structure has two storeys plus an attic and a narrow frontage.
On the ground floor, there is a heavily carved foliated stone capital supporting a pillar between the sash windows. The first floor includes a paired sash window, and there is a flat-roofed attic dormer. To the right, a brick and stone corner turret adds to the design. A wrought iron balcony and a continuous stone hood mould are present above the first-floor windows, with the entrance located on the side. This building is noted as a rare example of a folly or double cottage ornée, alongside the adjacent No. 23.
Local climate
Dodd Insurance Brokers 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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