C'Est Si Bon Restaurant Francais and Attached Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1969. Restaurant, shop. 1 related planning application.

C'Est Si Bon Restaurant Francais and Attached Shop

WRENN ID
brooding-outpost-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 December 1969
Type
Restaurant, shop
Address
C'Est Si Bon Restaurant Francais and Attached Shop, Newbury Street, Wantage, OX12 8DF
OS grid reference
SU 398 878
Coordinates
51.58777, -1.42604
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

C'est Si Bon Restaurant Francais and the attached shop is a house that has been converted into a shop and restaurant. It dates from the early to mid-18th century and was originally timber-framed. The exterior features Flemish bond brickwork with flared headers and an old tile roof, topped with a brick stack. The building has a three-unit plan, is two storeys high, and has a four-window range. There are two entries at the rear.

The right side has a large 20th-century window with a late 19th-century wooden surround. To the left, there is a late 18th-century sash window with segmental header arches above, and a mid-19th-century two-light casement window with six panes, along with a 20th-century casement window above. The windows on the right have been partly blocked and remodelled. The building features dentilled eaves and a half-hipped roof with a ridge stack. The side walls have splayed arrisses, and there is a segmental header arch over a 20th-century door at the rear right.

At the rear, there is a similar early to mid-18th-century outshut that has been remodelled in the 20th century. Inside, there are two collar-trusses with clasped purlins on the left side, and timber framing is visible on the rear left wall.

Local climate

C'Est Si Bon Restaurant Francais and Attached Shop receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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