The Steps is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Steps
- WRENN ID
- plain-grate-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Steps, Sandford St. Martin
- OS grid reference
- SP 420 281
- Coordinates
- 51.9506, -1.39028
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Steps is a small house, likely dating to the 16th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble with wooden lintels and has a thatched roof with a brick stack at the ridge. The original plan was probably three rooms, potentially evolving from a two-unit hall house. The house has one storey and an attic. The front elevation features a doorway with a thatched canopy on the left side. A blocked doorway is positioned to the right, flanked by large 20th-century casement windows. Two small, two-light leaded dormers are visible in the roof, one retaining an early timber frame. The rear of the house has additional leaded casement windows, and the stack is located to the left of centre.
Inside, to the right of the stack, the house retains two stop-chamfered transverse beams with stop-chamfered joists in the two bays. The fireplace bay has later joists likely inserted at a later date. The stack may rise from the centre of what was originally an open hall.
Local climate
The Steps 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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