Bastion 5 Between Cornmarket Street and Catte Street is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. House.
Bastion 5 Between Cornmarket Street and Catte Street
- WRENN ID
- dim-tallow-juniper
- 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
- Address
- Bastion 5 Between Cornmarket Street and Catte Street, City Wall
- OS grid reference
- SP 513 063
- Coordinates
- 51.75386, -1.25704
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bastion 5, located between Cornmarket Street and Catte Street, is a building that dates back to the 17th century. It consists of two houses, Nos 14 and 15, which feature a three-storey front that has been stuccoed in the 18th century. The first floor has an overhang, a moulded cornice, and a parapet. The 18th-century windows are framed with moulded wood; on the first floor, there are two-light sash windows and a single sash window, while the second floor has two two-light sash windows and a single tall sash window. The bastion, which is part of the City Wall, forms part of the kitchen of No 15. The interior may contain fittings from the 18th century. The Church of St Michael and Nos 1 to 6 and 8 to 16, which are consecutive, form a group with this building.
Local climate
Bastion 5 Between Cornmarket Street and Catte 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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