Cowley Road Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. A C20 Church. 3 related planning applications.
Cowley Road Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- far-soffit-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford East MP: Anneliese Dodds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1972
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Cowley Road Methodist Church, OX4 1HR
- OS grid reference
- SP 525 058
- Coordinates
- 51.74887, -1.23967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cowley Road Methodist Church is a building constructed between 1903 and 1904 by S. Salter. It features coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins. The church has a five-bay nave, with the second and fourth bays having gabled roofs. It is two storeys high and includes a three-light diamond-paned window in each bay. The entrance front consists of three bays, with a door and buttresses below. There is a corner tower topped with a conical roof and a scalloped parapet. The roof is covered with red tiles.
Local climate
Cowley Road Methodist Church 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- 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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