Castle House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1969. House. 2 related planning applications.
Castle House
- WRENN ID
- little-ember-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1969
- Type
- House
- Address
- Castle House, Cornhill, Banbury, OX16 5NG
- OS grid reference
- SP 456 407
- Coordinates
- 52.06298, -1.33626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle House is a house that dates from the 18th century or earlier and was remodelled in the 19th century. It is constructed of ironstone ashlar and features a steeply pitched Welsh slate roof with two renewed brick end stacks. The house has two storeys plus an attic and a seven-window range. The central entrance includes a six-panelled door set within a keystoned moulded doorcase and a moulded hood. Flanking the doorway are three sash windows with keystoned heads and glazing bars. The first floor has six similar windows. There is a central door opening onto a balcony that has margin lights, and two gabled attic dormers that are only partially visible. The building has moulded string courses at the first and attic floors, a panelled parapet with moulded coping, and a sundial. The stone copings are also notable. To the right end, there is a blocked two-light stone mullioned window with a hood mould. The rear elevation is finished in 19th-century stucco. Inside, there is a 19th-century elliptical staircase, a 19th-century ceiling band in the hall, 18th-century doors and doorcases, and 19th-century floor tiles.
Local climate
Castle House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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