Alliance Building Society Compare Insurance Brokers is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1975. House, offices. 1 related planning application.
Alliance Building Society Compare Insurance Brokers
- WRENN ID
- calm-rampart-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1975
- Type
- House, offices
- Address
- Alliance Building Society Compare Insurance Brokers, 30, Horse Fair, Banbury, OX16 0BW
- OS grid reference
- SP 453 404
- Coordinates
- 52.0607, -1.33966
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Alliance Building Society and Compare Insurance Brokers is a house and offices, likely built in the late 18th century or early 19th century, with later alterations. It is constructed of red brick and features a slate roof with a brick stack on the right side. The building has three storeys and a two-window range. The office front is wood cased and includes a central 20th-century door. To the right, there is a wood cased coachway entrance leading to the rear yard. The first and second floors each have a two-light and a three-light wood mullioned and transomed window with stone surrounds. The interior has not been inspected. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Alliance Building Society Compare Insurance Brokers 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 66% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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