Lecture Hall, Dining Room, Bar and Kitchen Approximately 15 Metres South of Wroxton College is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. Educational facility.
Lecture Hall, Dining Room, Bar and Kitchen Approximately 15 Metres South of Wroxton College
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-wattle-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Educational facility
- OS grid reference
- SP 416 415
- Coordinates
- 52.07102, -1.39402
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former stable that now serves as a lecture hall, dining room, bar, and kitchen, located approximately 15 meters south of Wroxton College. It dates from the late 17th century and underwent restoration and conversion in 1974-1975. The structure is built of ironstone ashlar and features a hipped roof covered with 20th-century tiles. It has a U-shaped plan and is symmetrical, with a central block that has a pediment and projecting wings. The building is two storeys high and has a facade with a 1:10:1 bay arrangement. There are six entrances with renewed doors and square doorheads, and three oculi positioned above the doors. The windows include two-light stone mullioned and transomed designs, with additional two-light stone mullioned windows on the first floor. A flat band runs along the first floor, and there is a moulded stone eaves cornice, as well as a stone plinth and quoins. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lecture Hall, Dining Room, Bar and Kitchen Approximately 15 Metres South of Wroxton College 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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