40, Cornmarket Street is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. House, shop.
40, Cornmarket Street
- WRENN ID
- vast-terrace-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1954
- Type
- House, shop
- OS grid reference
- SP 512 063
- Coordinates
- 51.75344, -1.25873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 40 on Cornmarket Street is a house and shop that dates back to the 17th century but was refronted in the 18th century. It is a four-storey building with a timber frame that has been covered in stucco. The ground floor features a shop front, while the first and second floors have a projecting three-sided bay with 19th-century sash windows. The third floor includes an 18th or 19th-century sash window set in a moulded wood frame. At one time, one of the original 17th-century gables was visible at the back of the building. The roof is not visible. This property is part of a group that includes Nos 38 to 42.
Local climate
40, 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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