Byways is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1988. A Modernism House. 3 related planning applications.
Byways
- WRENN ID
- waning-glass-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Period
- Modernism
- Address
- Byways, 131, Cassington Road, Yarnton, OX5 1QD
- OS grid reference
- SP 474 119
- Coordinates
- 51.80449, -1.31291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
House, built in 1907 by C.R. Ashbee. The house has roughcast walls with limestone ashlar dressings and a rubble plinth. The porch is constructed of squared and coursed limestone, and the roof is gabled and covered in stone slate, with stone ridge stacks. It is arranged in an L-shape, with a three-bay front range and a two-storey porch set on the angle of the wings. A pointed, moulded arched doorway features an inscription reading “HEA/1907” above it. Inside the porch is a half-glazed door set in a cyma-moulded wood architrave, with decorative iron fittings. The windows are tall sashes with glazing bars, set in moulded wood architraves. A wide, pointed tympanum arch with raised voussoirs is above the sashes in the left gable end, and there is an oeil-de-boeuf window in the right gable end. The interior has not been inspected, but is likely to be of interest. C.R. Ashbee was a leading architect of the Arts and Crafts Movement, known for his skill in metalwork.
Local climate
Byways 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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