Tower Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Tower Hill
- WRENN ID
- eastward-fireplace-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tower Hill, 101, High Street, Kidlington, OX5 2DS
- OS grid reference
- SP 494 143
- Coordinates
- 51.82524, -1.28434
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower Hill is a house located on Kidlington High Street, built around 1820 to 1830. It features coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with a gabled Welsh slate roof and brick end stacks. The house has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high with a symmetrical three-window range. The entrance includes a six-panelled door with a decorative overlight, set within an open-pedimented architrave supported by pilasters. The windows have keyed flat stone lintels above six-pane sashes. There are raised bands at the storey and eaves levels. At the rear, there are three-light leaded casements with turnbuckles and runner bars. A one-storey service wing is located to the rear right, which contains a reset early 16th-century two-light chamfered round-arched window in a lean-to. Inside, there is a dog-leg staircase with stick balusters at the rear and early 19th-century panelled doors, one of which retains its brass lock.
Local climate
Tower Hill 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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