The Greeting Card Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1969. House, shop.
The Greeting Card Shop
- WRENN ID
- roaming-beam-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1969
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- The Greeting Card Shop, 26, Parson's Street, Banbury
- OS grid reference
- SP 454 406
- Coordinates
- 52.062, -1.33873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Greeting Card Shop is a house and shop dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It is constructed of ironstone ashlar and features a slate roof. The building has three storeys and a two-window range. The shop front is from the 20th century. The first and second floors have 4-pane wide sash windows with keystoned surrounds. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Greeting Card Shop 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
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