Kings Head Court is a Grade II* listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1952. A Georgian Inn. 3 related planning applications.
Kings Head Court
- WRENN ID
- lesser-cornice-primrose
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1952
- Type
- Inn
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Kings Head Court, New Street, Chipping Norton, OX7 5LP
- OS grid reference
- SP 311 270
- Coordinates
- 51.94141, -1.5478
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
King's Head Court is a former inn, now converted into flats, dating to approximately 1720. It represents a refronting of an earlier building. The front facade is constructed of ashlar stone, while the side walls are of rubble stone with a restructured roof and stone stacks. The building exhibits a grand Cotswold Baroque style with a three-story facade of nine bays. It features fluted Doric pilasters at each end and a cross rhythm of round-headed and square-headed windows, interspersed with round-headed niches. The outer bays have round-headed sash windows; the next two bays inward are square-headed; and the central feature is a depressed arched carriage entrance with a round-headed sash window above. Another round-headed sash window is positioned above the carriage entrance on the top floor, flanked by niches. A second-floor band and a moulded cornice tie the facade together, with keystones from the end top windows and three central round-headed features projecting. Decayed and surviving proud keystones and brackets are visible below the windows. The building was recently sympathetically cleaned and is of great visual prominence and local architectural distinction.
Local climate
Kings Head Court receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% 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 — 35 transactions since 1997
- 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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