21 and 23, Castle Square is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. House.
21 and 23, Castle Square
- WRENN ID
- floating-span-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- 21 and 23, Castle Square, Benson
- OS grid reference
- SU 617 917
- Coordinates
- 51.621, -1.10938
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 21 and 23 Castle Square is a house that has been converted into a shop. It dates from the early 18th century and has had some alterations in the 19th century. The ground floor is finished in painted brick, while the first floor features grey brick with red brick dressings. The building has a plain-tile roof and a brick stack at the left end.
It is two stories tall with an attic and has a three-window range. To the left of the center, there is a six-panelled door with a decorative overlight and a moulded wood architrave. To the right of the center is a 20th-century glazed door, flanked by two 19th-century shop windows with six panes each. There is an angled bay to the left with a flat roof. A brick band separates the ground and first floors, and the first floor has three four-pane sash windows. The building features a shaped brick cornice at the base of the parapetted eaves and a flat-roofed dormer located to the left of the center. The roof is half-hipped on the right side. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
21 and 23, Castle Square sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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