The Ben Jonson Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Ben Jonson Public House
- WRENN ID
- inner-grate-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Ben Jonson Public House, Oxford Road, Weston-On-The-Green, OX25 3RA
- OS grid reference
- SP 532 188
- Coordinates
- 51.86568, -1.22741
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ben Jonson Public House is a public house dating from the early to mid-18th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble with wooden lintels and features a thatched roof with both rubble and brick stacks. The building has a three-unit lobby-entry plan, with subsidiary ranges and rear extensions, and stands two storeys tall plus attics.
The main range has a three-window front, with the entrance located in a 20th-century porch between the second and third bays. There is an additional ground-floor window, likely replacing a doorway, between the first and second bays. All windows are 2-light small-pane casements, except for a 3-light casement on the left side of the ground floor. A sundial, dated 1742, is positioned over the porch on a moulded ledge. The roof features stacks at both gables with rubble bases, as well as a brick stack aligned with the entrance.
To the left, there is a thatched single-storey hovel range that includes an inserted garage entrance. The rear of the main range has a rounded stair projection, a thatched single-storey wing, and a 20th-century flat-roofed extension. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Ben Jonson Public 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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