Old Malt House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Old Malt House
- WRENN ID
- lesser-parapet-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Malt House, Fox Lane, Westcot Barton, OX7 7BS
- OS grid reference
- SP 432 256
- Coordinates
- 51.92742, -1.37172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Malt House is an early 18th-century house located on Fox Lane, Westcot Barton. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with wooden lintels, and has marlstone gable parapets. The roof is covered with Stonesfield slate and concrete plain tiles, featuring brick gable stacks. The building follows a three-unit lobby-entry plan.
The front of the house, which faces away from the road, is divided into three bays. The two bays to the right are taller, containing a central gabled stair tower and a main entrance aligned with the left-hand stack. This section features windows with two-light casements. A lower bay to the left provides a second entrance and windows with two- and three-light casements. An upper stair window retains some leaded glazing. The rear elevation has three-light casements in the higher bays and two-light casements in the lower. All windows have chamfered lintels. The roof includes two gabled roof dormers at the rear, and stacks on each of the three gables, with parapets incorporating projecting kneelers.
Inside, the house features stop-chamfered beams, a large bread oven, and a winder stair leading to the attic.
Local climate
Old Malt House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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