56, The Square is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1956. House.
56, The Square
- WRENN ID
- roaming-shingle-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1956
- Type
- House
- Address
- 56, The Square, Great Tew
- OS grid reference
- SP 397 293
- Coordinates
- 51.96093, -1.42255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
56 The Square is a house located in Great Tew, likely dating from the 17th century and re-fronted around 1700. It is constructed of marlstone ashlar and coursed squared rubble, topped with a Stonesfield-slate roof featuring limestone-ashlar gable stacks. The house has a two-unit plan with a rear stair tower and stands two storeys plus an attic high.
The symmetrical front has three windows and a central doorway that features a four-panel door with a flat arch and a projecting keyblock. There is a shallow open porch with ashlar sides and roof. The outer bays have lattice-glazed cross windows with keyblock flat arches, and above the door is a single-light transom window. An ashlar storey band connects to ground-floor pilaster strips at the corners and to a panel above the door. The gables are topped with parapets, and 19th-century stacks have moulded caps. The rear of the house includes a full-height central stair tower with stone-mullioned lattice windows. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
56, The Square 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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