Chestnut Close is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1986. Country house.
Chestnut Close
- WRENN ID
- watchful-moulding-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1986
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Chestnut Close, Ascott Road, Shipton-Under-Wychwood
- OS grid reference
- SP 296 179
- Coordinates
- 51.85923, -1.57043
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnut Close is a small country house dated "H/SF/1913". It is constructed of coursed rubble with freestone quoins and dressings, topped with Cotswold stone roofs featuring coped verges and cut finials. The house has a roughly H-plan layout and is designed in the Cotswold style, characterized by mullion windows, drips, and leaded casements.
Prominent features include large grouped ashlar stacks, a central gable with a cut finial, and short sections of crenellated parapet. The building is two storeys high with attics and has a symmetrical arrangement of windows, generally following a 1:3:1 bay pattern. On the first floor, there are three single-light windows above one 3-light window on the ground floor. The central section features 2-light windows and a central gable with an ashlar canted first-floor oriel and a lozenge datestone. Below this is a Tudor arch moulded doorway with a battered door and an Art Nouveau style beaten brass handle inside, along with a stone bracketed open pediment hood that supports the oriel. The house also has dated lead rainwater heads and regular first-floor flower balconies of inferior design.
The south front resembles a more traditional Cotswold manor house, featuring three gables, a central recess, and mullion windows with 2, 3, and 4-light configurations, along with angled bays on the outer gables.
Local climate
Chestnut Close receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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