The Old Inn is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. A C20 Former inn, house. 1 related planning application.

The Old Inn

WRENN ID
lone-granite-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Type
Former inn, house
Address
The Old Inn, Burford Road, Black Bourton, OX18 2PF
OS grid reference
SP 287 042
Coordinates
51.73594, -1.58567
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Inn is a former inn that has been converted into a house. It was originally built in the 17th century as a single range, with rear outshots added and the front raised in the 18th to early 19th century. The outshots were altered to create a parallel rear range around 1950. The building incorporates carved stone fragments, some of which are from Bourton Place, the former manor house of the Hungerford family, which was demolished around 1800.

The structure is made of coursed rubble limestone and features a two-span roof covered with stone slates, along with rebuilt rubble stone chimneys located to the right and between the right bays. It has two storeys and three bays. The windows are three-light wooden casements with horizontal glazing bars, which were renewed in the 20th century, all featuring wooden lintels. The ground floor lintels are older, while the upper lintels have been replaced. The ground floor of the right bay has a three-light window with hollow-chamfered stone mullions and a Tudor hoodmould, which may not be original to the house.

There is a 20th-century board door with a 20th-century wooden lintel situated between the right bays. Above the door is an 18th-century carved stone tablet featuring a military trophy, likely from Bourton Place. Additionally, a small square tablet below the eaves between the left bays displays simple motifs from the Hungerford arms. A tablet dated ITM 1655 is located below the eaves at the centre, which may be original to the house but could have been reset when the front was raised. Inside, there is a 17th-century stop-chamfered spine beam in the left bay, a winder stair in the right bay aligned with the stack, and altered trusses with cranked principals.

Local climate

The Old Inn receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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