Elephant and Castle Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1986. Hotel, public house. 2 related planning applications.
Elephant and Castle Hotel
- WRENN ID
- lost-bracket-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1986
- Type
- Hotel, public house
- Address
- Elephant and Castle Hotel, 6, Middleton Road, Banbury, OX16 4QQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 462 406
- Coordinates
- 52.06205, -1.32726
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Elephant and Castle Hotel is a house that has been converted into a hotel and public house, dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It is constructed of regularly coursed ironstone rubble and features a steeply pitched slate roof with ironstone copings on both sides. The building has ironstone quoins and brick ridge and end stacks on rendered stone bases. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a three-window range arranged in a three-unit plan.
The central entrance features a four-centred arched doorway with a chamfered soffit and jambs, although it now has a 20th-century door. Flanking the doorway are 20th-century windows with chamfered wooden lintels. The first floor has three similar renewed 20th-century windows, also with chamfered wooden lintels. There are two flat-roofed dormers in the roof.
At the rear left, there is a two-storey extension made of ironstone with a slate roof, which includes a plank door with a wooden lintel and 20th-century windows on both the ground and first floors. The large red brick extension attached to the right is noted as not being of special architectural interest. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Elephant and Castle Hotel 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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