Oxford House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1970. House. 2 related planning applications.
Oxford House
- WRENN ID
- iron-wicket-martin
- 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
- Oxford House, Kings End, Bicester, OX26 6DS
- OS grid reference
- SP 580 224
- Coordinates
- 51.89759, -1.15789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oxford House is a substantial house, likely built in the early 18th century, with alterations and extensions made in the early 19th century. The building features rendered walls and roofs made of Welsh slate and old plain tiles, arranged in an L-plan layout. It has two storeys.
The earlier block, positioned at the angle of the ranges, has a symmetrical three-window front facing north. This section includes a plinth, a storey band, and a deep plaster eaves cove. The early 19th-century pilastered stucco doorcase contains a glazed two-leaf door, while the windows are fitted with 16-pane early 19th-century sashes.
To the left, there is a three-window range that shares a similar plinth and storey band but features a lower-pitched roof. This section has a six-panel door with a plain stucco doorcase and a projecting keyblock, along with 16-pane sashes on the ground floor and 12-pane sashes above. The roof of the earlier section is hipped to the right and extends over the three-window west front, which likely originally had four windows. This front also has a six-panel door in a pilastered doorcase and similar 16-pane sashes.
There is a two-window extension to the range, which lacks the eaves cove but has a steep roof, 16-pane sashes, and a plain doorway. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Oxford House 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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