The Highway Hotel is a Grade II* listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. A C16 Hotel, house. 5 related planning applications.
The Highway Hotel
- WRENN ID
- fallow-balcony-jet
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Hotel, house
- Address
- The Highway Hotel, 117, High Street, Burford, OX18 4RG
- OS grid reference
- SP 251 121
- Coordinates
- 51.80704, -1.63666
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Highway Hotel is a house and hostelry that dates back to the 15th or 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th century. The second floor is said to have been modified by a Mr. Horniman in 1922. The building features a timber-frame structure rendered on the exterior, topped with a Cotswold stone roof. It stands three storeys tall, with the upper two floors jettied.
On the second floor, there are four paired glazing-bar sash windows. The first floor has two glazing-bar sash windows, two outer angled bays with glazing-bar sashes, and an oval window on the right side. The ground floor includes wine underbuilt rectangular bays with glazing-bar sash windows. The left door features a 16th-century moulded timber surround with urn stops and two fire insurance plates (Farmers and County), while the right side has a tall stone moulded Tudor archway with traceried spandrels.
Local climate
The Highway Hotel receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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 — 3 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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