1 and 3, London Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1970. Shop and dwelling.

1 and 3, London Road

WRENN ID
scarred-portal-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cherwell
Constituency
Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 March 1970
Type
Shop and dwelling
Address
1 and 3, London Road, Bicester
OS grid reference
SP 586 223
Coordinates
51.89654, -1.14968
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 1 and 3 London Road is a shop and dwelling, likely built in the mid-18th century and 19th century. The building features pebbledashed brick and limestone rubble, with roofs made of plain tiles and Welsh slate, along with brick stacks. It consists of two sections with a rear wing, standing three storeys and two storeys plus an attic.

The front of No. 1 has four windows and includes a second-floor storey band, cornice, and plain parapet, all rendered over. It has 4-light 19th-century sash windows, which are shorter on the second floor. The steep-pitched tiled roof has stacks on either side. No. 3, to the right, has a single-bay front that also features a band and is rendered, but is likely from the 19th century; it includes a canted bay window on the first floor. Its shallow-pitched roof is slated. There is a continuous 20th-century shop front.

At the rear, No. 1 has a rubble wall and a contemporary lower rear wing that extends to the left, featuring some leaded casements. There is a hipped-roofed stair projection at the angle of the two ranges. Inside, there is a dogleg stair that rises to the attic, with turned column balusters, moulded handrails that extend over rectangular newels, and closed strings that are moulded at the landings.

Local climate

1 and 3, London 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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