18, Main Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1988. Cottage.
18, Main Road
- WRENN ID
- shifting-gallery-grain
- 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
- 18, Main Road, Newton Purcell with Shelswell
- OS grid reference
- SP 625 307
- Coordinates
- 51.97145, -1.09031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 18 is a cottage located on Main Road in Newton Purcell, dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a steeply pitched thatched roof with a brick stack at one end. The cottage has a single-unit plan and is a single storey plus attic. The entrance is off-centre to the left and includes a plank door with a moulded wood frame and wood lintel. To the right of the entrance, there is a 2-light wood casement window with a wood frame. The left gable has two 2-light wood casement windows, each with wood lintels. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
18, Main Road 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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