Austin House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1969. Office.
Austin House
- WRENN ID
- tired-baluster-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1969
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Austin House, 24, South Bar Street, Banbury, OX16 9AF
- OS grid reference
- SP 453 401
- Coordinates
- 52.05825, -1.33979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Austin House is a former Baptist chapel, now used as offices, built in 1834 with later alterations. The building is constructed of red brick and features a hipped Welsh slate roof with a brick end stack. It stands two storeys high and has a three-window range. The central entrance bay is slightly advanced and includes a porch supported by slender columns, with panelled double doors and a decorated overlight above. There is a single sash window above the entrance that has glazing bars and a stone sill. On the ground floor, to the left and right of the porch, there are sash windows with glazing bars, brick flat arches, and stone sills. The first floor has two similar windows, and all windows are of three-pane width. The basement also contains sash windows with glazing bars. The building is finished with a moulded chamfered cornice. It was erected for Richard Austin, who died in 1840, and the Austin family were notable brewers and Baptists in 19th century Banbury.
Local climate
Austin 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 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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