The Old Workshops is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. Cottage, barn.
The Old Workshops
- WRENN ID
- south-trefoil-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- Cottage, barn
- Address
- The Old Workshops, Church Street, Wroxton
- OS grid reference
- SP 416 417
- Coordinates
- 52.07237, -1.39332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Workshops is a cottage with an attached barn, now functioning as one house. It dates from the late 17th century and has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. The building is constructed of regular coursed ironstone rubble and squared coursed ironstone, which is finely jointed. It features a steeply pitched thatched roof with stone coping on the right gable, adorned with finials.
The entrance consists of a plank door set within a moulded wood frame and wood lintel. To the left of the entrance, there is a renewed three-light wood casement window, and on the far left, a three-light metal casement window within a wood frame. The former barn on the right side has a three-light 20th-century casement window with a wood lintel. The attic of the cottage includes a two-light metal casement window with a wood lintel and a two-light Yorkshire sliding sash window. Two of the windows are fitted with wrought-iron casement fasteners, and all windows have wood lintels. The barn features a ventilation slit, and the right gable has a blind pointed window. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Workshops receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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