Unicorn Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1988. Inn. 10 related planning applications.
Unicorn Hotel
- WRENN ID
- dark-cupola-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1988
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Unicorn Hotel, Market Place, Deddington, OX15 0SE
- OS grid reference
- SP 466 316
- Coordinates
- 51.98117, -1.32179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Unicorn Hotel is an inn that dates from the mid-17th century and was remodeled and extended in the late 18th to early 19th century. It features rendered stone and brick walls and a Welsh-slate roof with brick gable stacks. The building has a two-unit through-passage plan that extends to the rear and stands three storeys tall.
The front has three windows and a wide central four-panel door with a flat canopy above. The first and second floors have 12-pane sash windows. The outer bays are highlighted by three-storey rectangular bay windows; the ground and first floors have renewed five-light casements, while the second floor has architraved 12-pane sashes that only face the front. The right bay window has been partly extended to the left, with the ground floor window expanded to eight lights, but the first floor has a blind section, which features a seated figure of a unicorn on the flat roof. The projecting boxed eaves create a cornice effect around the bay windows. The shallow-pitched roof slopes lower at the rear above a brick extension. A stone wing extends from the right side and has 16-pane sash windows.
Inside, there are 17th-century stop-chamfered joists and a spine beam.
Local climate
Unicorn Hotel 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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