Bicester Snooker Club is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1970. Club, former church. 3 related planning applications.

Bicester Snooker Club

WRENN ID
tall-courtyard-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cherwell
Constituency
Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 March 1970
Type
Club, former church
Address
Bicester Snooker Club, Chapel Street, OX26 6BD
OS grid reference
SP 584 222
Coordinates
51.89608, -1.15142
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bicester Snooker Club is a former Congregational chapel built in 1728, with alterations and extensions made around 1840 and 1873, and converted for use as a club in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of limestone rubble and chequer brick, featuring some ashlar dressings, and has Welsh-slate roofs. The central block is flanked by lower wings that create a forecourt.

The main façade has five windows made of brick with blue headers, rising from a rubble plinth. It features tall round-arched windows with 19th-century architraves and wooden tracery. The left bay has been modified to include a rose window above a newly added porch with a pediment, which contains a round-arched doorway surrounded by rusticated stone blocks. The hipped roof has boxed eaves that break in the center below a small triangular pediment, with only the pediment retaining the deep plaster cove.

The low wings are made with yellow headers, and their front gable walls have arched windows with wooden "Gothic" tracery. The right wing features a gable parapet, while the left wing returns beside the main block and includes sash windows. The sides and rear of the main block are in rubble and contain additional arched and rose windows. Inside, the upper room retains the boarded ceiling of the chapel, which also has a deep plaster cove.

Local climate

Bicester Snooker Club 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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