6, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
6, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- lost-cornice-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 6, Main Street, Fringford, OX27 8DP
- OS grid reference
- SP 606 290
- Coordinates
- 51.95623, -1.11874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 6 is a cottage located on Main Street, dating from the 18th century with some 20th-century alterations. It is built from coursed limestone rubble and features a steeply pitched thatched roof with a brick ridge stack. The cottage has a two-unit plan and is a single storey plus attic. The entrance, located approximately in the center, has a renewed door with a wooden lintel and is flanked by 20th-century casement windows in wooden frames, which have original lintels. A thatched hood covers the porch. On the right side, there is a single eyebrow dormer with a 20th-century wooden casement window. Inside, there is a chamfered beam and an inglenook fireplace with a bressumer. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
6, Main Street 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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