38, Cornmarket Street is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. Shop. 4 related planning applications.
38, Cornmarket Street
- WRENN ID
- final-casement-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1954
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 38, Cornmarket Street, OX1 3HA
- OS grid reference
- SP 512 063
- Coordinates
- 51.7535, -1.25877
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 38 on Cornmarket Street is a shop located on the southeast corner of St Michael's Street. Originally known as the Plough Inn, this building dates back to the 17th century, with a date of 1665 once visible on the front window. It is primarily two storeys tall and features a high attic gable. On the first floor, there is a six-light casement window with a decorative cornice above, topped by two small gables. The ground floor has a modern shop front designed to fit the overall style of the building. The north side has been reconstructed in modern times, featuring new gables, each with a six-light wood mullioned window supported by brackets and adorned with a moulded cornice. The interior retains a stone fireplace on the first floor to the west. The building has been well restored, making its current appearance worthy of preservation. Nos 38 to 42 form a group.
Local climate
38, Cornmarket Street 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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