The Sphinx Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1969. Restaurant.
The Sphinx Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-wattle-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1969
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- The Sphinx Restaurant, 39 and 39a, Parson's Street, Banbury
- OS grid reference
- SP 454 406
- Coordinates
- 52.06216, -1.33854
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sphinx Restaurant is an inn that has been converted into a shop and restaurant. It dates back to the 17th century and has undergone later alterations. The building is constructed of limestone with a rendered first floor and features a slate roof. There is a rendered brick stack on the right side. It stands two storeys tall, plus an attic, and has a three-window range with a three-unit plan. The ground floor has 20th-century shop fronts, while the first floor features three sash windows with glazing bars and keystoned stone surrounds. Stone pilasters are present on the first floor, along with a bracketed eaves cornice. The building has three gabled roof dormers and was formerly known as the Buck and Bell Inn. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Sphinx Restaurant 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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