Canterbury House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1988. Rectory, house. 3 related planning applications.
Canterbury House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-footing-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1988
- Type
- Rectory, house
- Address
- Canterbury House, Fir Lane, Steeple Aston, OX25 4SF
- OS grid reference
- SP 475 260
- Coordinates
- 51.93125, -1.31019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Canterbury House is a rectory that was built in 1832 and has since been extended. The building is constructed from coursed squared marlstone with ashlar dressings, some of which are limestone, and features a Welsh-slate roof with ashlar stacks. It has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys tall. The symmetrical front, which faces the garden, has four windows with 12-pane sashes, larger on the ground floor, all featuring limestone quoins and flat arches, while other dressings are in marlstone. The shallow-pitched hipped roof has projecting eaves with plastered soffits and flanking stacks. The right side of the building has four additional sashes and includes the entrance, which features a 6-panel door, a fanlight, and a flat canopy supported by shaped brackets. The left side and rear of the house have small 19th-century extensions. Inside, there is a wide staircase with a stick balustrade and a mahogany handrail, along with contemporary fireplaces in the principal rooms.
Local climate
Canterbury 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- 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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