Otter House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. Rectory, house.
Otter House
- WRENN ID
- deep-foundation-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- Rectory, house
- Address
- Otter House, Oddington
- OS grid reference
- SP 553 152
- Coordinates
- 51.83276, -1.19767
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Otter House is a former rectory, now a house, built in 1821. The structure features limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and is partly rendered, topped with a Welsh-slate roof that has rendered end stacks. It has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high. The front, which faces away from the road, is symmetrical with five windows. It includes a central panelled door with an integral toplight, sheltered by a shallow stone canopy supported by consoles. The flanking windows are 12-pane sashes, while the first floor has casement windows, all set beneath flat arches with projecting keyblocks. A small brick extension partially conceals the right side of the front. The sides and rear of the building are rendered; the right side features a pair of projecting stacks, while the left side is obscured by a 20th-century extension. The garden front mirrors the entrance front's window style, but the central doorway has an ashlar surround that may be from the 20th century. The roof is shallow-pitched and hipped, with wide projecting eaves. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Otter 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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