Number 8 Including Former Magistrates Courthouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1976. Courthouse. 1 related planning application.
Number 8 Including Former Magistrates Courthouse
- WRENN ID
- moated-sandstone-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1976
- Type
- Courthouse
- Address
- Number 8 Including Former Magistrates Courthouse, Church Street, Bicester, OX26 6AZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 583 223
- Coordinates
- 51.89644, -1.15396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 8, including the former Magistrates' Courthouse, was built in 1857, with the courthouse itself likely added later. The building is constructed of coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings and brick, and has Welsh-slate roofs with stone stacks. It forms an L-shaped arrangement.
The two-storey police station section has a four-window front. The gabled right bay features a four-pane segmental-headed sash window above a segmental-arched carriage entrance. The other bays contain similar, but larger, sashes to each floor. A segmental-arched doorway with an overlight sits between the first and second bays; both the doorway and the carriage entrance retain studded doors. A simple stone cornice hides the eaves gutter, and a plaque inscribed “COUNTY/POLICE/1857” is set into the gable. The rear of the police station section is stone with brick dressings.
The single-storey, gable-fronted courthouse is linked to the police station by a short range containing a large doorway and a window, both with chamfered stone surrounds. The courthouse’s gable features a pair of tall 18-pane sashes with matching surrounds and relieving arches, and a round opening in the gable. The gable parapet is finished with gabled kneelers.
A long, brick-fronted wing to the rear of the courthouse retains two 20-pane sashes and other original openings, but has been significantly altered and raised to two storeys, likely in the early 20th century. The interior of the building has not been inspected.
Local climate
Number 8 Including Former Magistrates Courthouse 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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