Ambrosden House Lairg House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1952. Town house. 1 related planning application.

Ambrosden House Lairg House

WRENN ID
young-banister-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cherwell
Constituency
Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 January 1952
Type
Town house
Address
Ambrosden House Lairg House, 28, Market Square, Bicester, OX26 6AG
OS grid reference
SP 584 223
Coordinates
51.89654, -1.15169
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ambrosden House and Lairg House is a substantial town house that has been converted into a shop and dwelling. It dates from the early 18th century and has undergone alterations. The building features colourwashed brick and coursed squared limestone, with old plain-tile roofs and brick stacks. It consists of a main range and rear service wings, standing two storeys plus an attic.

The front of the building has six windows and is made of brick, with a moulded dentil course. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows, and there is a 20th-century shop front. The roof includes three flat-headed roof dormers and is hipped to the right. The cornice returns over the angled rubble end wall, which has a first-floor sash window and a blocked window below.

At the rear, there is a lower three-window rubble wing that likely underwent remodelling in the 19th century but still retains a datestone inscribed "H/RG/1688." This wing features 4-pane sash windows, with segmental arches at the ground floor, and an inserted doorway. Additional two-storey ranges parallel to the main range and the wing are constructed in 18th-century chequer brick and have sash windows along with a storey band. The interior has not been inspected. Ambrosden House once included No. 29A to the left.

Local climate

Ambrosden House Lairg House 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 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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