Oriel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
Oriel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stony-newel-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oriel Cottage, Workhouse Lane, Bloxham, OX15 4PH
- OS grid reference
- SP 429 360
- Coordinates
- 52.02152, -1.37497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oriel Cottage is a house, likely dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed of regular coursed ironstone rubble and has a steeply pitched tile roof with a brick ridge stack and a brick stack at the right end, both resting on stone bases. The house is arranged with a three-unit plan and has a single storey plus an attic. A 20th-century door is located on the right side. To the right is a three-light wooden mullioned window with ovolo moulded mullions and a lintel, also ovolo moulded. To the left are two two-light windows and a single-light window, all featuring wooden lintels. The three-light and two two-light attic casements have 20th-century wooden lintels and wrought iron fasteners. Inside, a staircase has a straight flight and a quarter turn. The main room contains stop-chamfered spine beams, a chamfered bressumer and a bread oven. Plank doors are also present. Oriel Cottage is recorded as the site of the former workhouse, first documented in 1736.
Local climate
Oriel Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% 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.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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