Stow House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1970. House.
Stow House
- WRENN ID
- sacred-cornice-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Stow House, 1, Kings End, Bicester
- OS grid reference
- SP 582 223
- Coordinates
- 51.89679, -1.15556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stow House is a late 17th-century house that was altered in the 19th century. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and features wooden lintels, topped with a fish-scale tile roof and brick end stacks. The building has an L-plan layout and stands two storeys high with attics. The front has two windows and includes a 4-panel door to the left of centre and a tripartite sash window to the right, along with 9-pane sashes on the first floor. The steep-pitched roof has a 2-light roof dormer on the right side. The left gable wall steps around a chimney projection, which has 18th-century paired stacks, and features two 9-pane sashes and a datestone inscribed with "168(?)". The rear of the house has additional sashes and a dormer, as well as a gabled stair projection that connects to the rear wing. Inside, there is a two-storey stair hall with an early 19th-century staircase, an upper flight of winder stairs, and a butt-purlin roof.
Local climate
Stow 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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