Bodicote House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. A C18 House. 12 related planning applications.
Bodicote House
- WRENN ID
- frozen-alcove-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bodicote House, High Street, OX15 4AA
- OS grid reference
- SP 461 380
- Coordinates
- 52.03914, -1.32901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bodicote House is a large house that now serves as the offices of the Cherwell District Council. It was built in the 18th century, with additions from the 19th century, and was remodeled in 1878 by the architect John Thomas Lee.
The main elevation features ironstone ashlar with regularly coursed ironstone rubble on the sides, topped with a Welsh slate roof and stone ridge stacks. The building has a complex plan and stands two storeys plus an attic. It has three bays and a three-window range, with two bay windows flanking a central doorway. The panelled door includes a fanlight, and the porch has an open pediment supported by Tuscan columns. The ground floor and first floor of the bay windows have keystoned sashes, while the attic features 20th-century windows. There are continuous stone sills for the windows on each storey, flat bands at the first floor and attic levels, and a moulded stone eaves cornice. The building is topped with a stone parapet and stone copings, and there is a Victorian stone porch at the side entrance on the right.
The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Bodicote House 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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