Anglia Building Society Fairfax Cholmeley and Company Royal Insurance is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1952. House, offices. 3 related planning applications.
Anglia Building Society Fairfax Cholmeley and Company Royal Insurance
- WRENN ID
- long-joist-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1952
- Type
- House, offices
- Address
- Anglia Building Society Fairfax Cholmeley and Company Royal Insurance, 5, High Street, Banbury, OX16 5DZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 456 405
- Coordinates
- 52.06164, -1.33538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century house, now offices, located on the south side of Banbury High Street. It has been altered on the ground floor in later periods. The building is stuccoed with a Welsh slate roof and a brick stack on the right end. It is three storeys high and has a two-window facade. The ground floor features a 20th-century wooden shop front with a bow window and two entrances. There is a passageway entrance to the left, leading to Pepper Alley. The first and second floors each contain two tripartite sash windows. A gabled roof dormer is present. The building has a moulded wooden eaves cornice. The interior was remodelled in the 20th century. A photograph is held within the National Monuments Record.
Local climate
Anglia Building Society Fairfax Cholmeley and Company Royal Insurance 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 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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