Rain Restaurant and Wine Bar is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1973. House, shop, restaurant.
Rain Restaurant and Wine Bar
- WRENN ID
- stark-glass-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1973
- Type
- House, shop, restaurant
- Address
- Rain Restaurant and Wine Bar, Cornhill, Banbury
- OS grid reference
- SP 455 406
- Coordinates
- 52.06264, -1.33638
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rain Restaurant and Wine Bar is a house, shop, and office that has been converted into a restaurant. It is one of a pair of buildings constructed in 1866 by William Wilkinson of Oxford for W.J. Douglas, the owner of Castle House. The building is designed in Gothic style and features red, white, blue, and black brick with dressings made from two different types of stone. It has a hipped, slated roof with a finial and a brick end stack. The structure is two storeys plus an attic with a narrow frontage. The ground floor showcases heavy carving around the window and door openings, including foliated capitals on four pillars. There is a double casement window on the first floor and an attic dormer, along with dentilled eaves. This building is noted as a rare example, along with the adjacent No. 24, of a folly or double cottage ornée.
Local climate
Rain Restaurant and Wine Bar 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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