3,4 and 5, Main Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1988. Cottage.

3,4 and 5, Main Road

WRENN ID
forbidden-rubblework-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cherwell
Constituency
Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 October 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
3,4 and 5, Main Road, Newton Purcell with Shelswell
OS grid reference
SP 624 304
Coordinates
51.96919, -1.09171
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 3, 4, and 5 Main Road are a row of three cottages built in the late 18th century, with 20th-century alterations and additions to the rear. They are constructed from coursed limestone rubble and feature steeply pitched thatched roofs, with renewed brick ridge and end stacks. Each cottage has a single-unit plan; No. 5 is a single-storey building, while Nos. 3 and 4 are single-storey with attics.

Each cottage has a plank door set in a wooden frame with a wooden lintel. No. 5 includes a two-light wooden casement window and a round window, with no attic windows. No. 4 features three two-light casements and a round window on the ground floor, along with two eyebrow dormers. No. 3 has three two-light casements on the ground floor and a single eyebrow dormer. The entrance to No. 3 is located in a thatched brick extension on the right gable. Most of the casement windows in the row have lead cames and wrought-iron casement fasteners. Inside, the cottages contain beams and fireplaces from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Local climate

3,4 and 5, Main Road 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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