Court Leet is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. House.

Court Leet

WRENN ID
carved-brass-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cherwell
Constituency
Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 December 1955
Type
House
Address
Court Leet, Main Street, Wigginton
OS grid reference
SP 390 332
Coordinates
51.9959, -1.43213
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Court Leet is a building that consists of four cottages, now converted into one house, with a datestone indicating it was built in 1830. The structure is made of regularly coursed ironstone rubble and features a 20th-century tile roof with two stone ridge stacks. It stands two storeys tall with an attic and has a four-window range. There are four entrances, one at each end and two in the center, all featuring chamfered jambs and hood moulds with label stops, and all have plank doors.

On either side of the central doors, there are two three-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops. The first floor has four similar two-light stone mullioned windows. The central gabled bay includes a two-light stone mullioned window with cusped heads, hood mould, and label stops. The owner notes that the gables once had ball finials, and the building has stone copings with kneelers. Above the central doorways, there is a Latin inscription that reads: "Unless the Lord is with us we build in vain."

Historically, the building known as The Court may have originally served as the church house and was later used for court leets. The rear part of the building dates back to the 17th century, while the main structure was rebuilt in the 19th century as four tenements, with Robert Cleaver as the mason. The cottages were converted into a single house in 1963, and the interior has been updated in the 20th century.

Local climate

Court Leet receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% 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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