The Limes is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1970. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Limes
- WRENN ID
- heavy-shingle-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Limes, 20, Church Street, Bicester, OX26 6AZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 582 223
- Coordinates
- 51.89658, -1.15479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Limes is a substantial house, likely built in the mid-18th century and altered in the 19th century. It features rendered walls and a Welsh-slate roof with rendered gable stacks. The building is a single range with an added rear outshut and stands three storeys tall. The front has five windows, with flanking fluted Ionic pilasters. All floors have 4-pane 19th-century sash windows, arranged regularly but not symmetrically. The central doorway is adorned with Tuscan pilasters and a 19th-century canopy supported by shaped brackets. The eaves line was likely raised in the 19th century. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Limes 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- 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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