Carmel Lights the Store is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1975. House, shop.
Carmel Lights the Store
- WRENN ID
- bitter-granite-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1975
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Carmel Lights the Store, 8, Parsons Street, Banbury
- OS grid reference
- SP 455 406
- Coordinates
- 52.06216, -1.33706
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Carmel Lights The Store is a house and three shops dating from the early 19th century. The building has a stucco front with brick sides and stands three storeys high, featuring a two-window range. The ground floor has two 20th-century shop fronts. On the first floor, there are two tall pedimented casement windows set in stone frames, while the second floor has two smaller windows with cornices. The building is accented by rusticated quoins on the first and second floors and a moulded band at the second floor. It is topped with a plain parapet. Inside, there is a dogleg staircase.
Local climate
Carmel Lights the Store 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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