Caroline Court and Attached Walls and Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1949. Almshouses, flats. 3 related planning applications.

Caroline Court and Attached Walls and Outbuilding

WRENN ID
haunted-cornice-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1949
Type
Almshouses, flats
Address
Caroline Court and Attached Walls and Outbuilding, 1-23, Oxford Street, Woodstock
OS grid reference
SP 447 165
Coordinates
51.84617, -1.35222
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Caroline Court, along with its attached walls and outbuilding, is a group of almshouses that were converted into flats for older people in 1969. They were originally built in 1797 for Caroline, Duchess of Marlborough. The building is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a hipped Welsh slate roof. It has a plan form that is not clearly defined.

The structure consists of two storeys and has a nine-bay range, with the central three bays set forward. In the center, there are three doorways, which have had windows inserted in 1969, framed by moulded stone architraves with fluted friezes above each cornice. Each outer wing has a central doorway, also with windows inserted in 1969, set in a keyed moulded architrave. Stone lintels are present over the 20th-century windows, and a plain medallion is placed above each outer door. The central bay features an apron with the inscription: "THESE ALMSHOUSES/WERE BUILT AND ENDOWED/BY CAROLINE DUCHESS/OF MARLBOROUGH/A.D. MDCCXCVII."

To the right of the building, there is a stone-coped limestone rubble wall, approximately 5 meters long, with a wooden gate. This wall is attached to a late 18th-century outhouse made of limestone rubble, which has a hipped Welsh slate roof and flat stone arches over two 20th-century doors to the left, as well as two 2-light wood-mullioned windows at the front. The rear wing, built in 1969, does not have special architectural interest.

Local climate

Caroline Court and Attached Walls and Outbuilding receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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