Dial House the Middle House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. House. 2 related planning applications.
Dial House the Middle House
- WRENN ID
- stony-buttress-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dial House the Middle House, High Street, Hook Norton, OX15 5NQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 355 331
- Coordinates
- 51.99561, -1.48323
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dial House, also known as The Middle House, is a house that dates from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble with ironstone quoins and has a 20th-century tile roof. The building features three brick stacks located at the ends and along the ridge, and it has a three-unit plan with two storeys plus an attic and an M-shaped roof.
On the first floor, there are five 16-pane sash windows. The ground floor has two doors, each flanked by 16-pane sash windows. Above the left door, there is a sundial dated 1766, and the door on the right has a canopy hood. The Dial House includes a hipped dormer.
Inside, there is a cellar beneath the right part of the house, and there are blocked doors in the dividing walls on both floors. At the rear, there is a two-storey range that is from the 17th century or earlier, which features steeply pitched gabled dormers that are flush with the main wall. Additionally, there are lozenge-shaped, blocked windows located above the ground floor on the rear elevation.
Local climate
Dial House the Middle House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
- 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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