Payne's Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. A C18 House. 14 related planning applications.
Payne's Hill House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-portal-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Payne's Hill House, Paines Hill, Steeple Aston, OX25 4SQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 476 259
- Coordinates
- 51.9299, -1.30873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Payne’s Hill House is a substantial house, partly dating to the 18th century, largely re-erected around 1806 for Dr. Thomas Perry, with later 19th-century additions. It is constructed mainly of limestone ashlar, with coursed marlstone rubble and limestone-ashlar dressings, and has Welsh-slate roofs with ashlar and brick stacks. The house is arranged around a two-unit plan, with subsidiary wings. It has three storeys plus an attic, and a further two storeys in parts.
The symmetrical, two-window ashlar front of the main range features a plinth, storey bands, sill bands, a cornice, and a parapet, all of which step around three-storey canted bay windows. Each storey of the bay windows has three eight-pane sashes. A central doorway has a six-panel door, matching panelled reveals, and a 20th-century stone doorcase. Gable parapets cover the steep-pitched roof, and carry ashlar stacks. To the right of the main range is a two-storey marlstone section dating to the 19th century, with casement windows and a secondary doorway. Additions to the rear of the property consist of at least three different builds. The front of the house is believed to have been part of Middle Aston House, which was demolished in 1806. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Payne's Hill House 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 14 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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