Woodstock House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. House. 22 related planning applications.
Woodstock House
- WRENN ID
- noble-brick-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Woodstock House, Rectory Lane, OX20 1UG
- OS grid reference
- SP 443 165
- Coordinates
- 51.84616, -1.35741
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodstock House is a house built around 1730, with early 19th-century alterations. It features coursed limestone rubble with an ashlar front and a hipped concrete tile roof, along with mid-19th-century yellow brick stacks. The building is L-shaped with a rear right wing and has three storeys, presenting a symmetrical six-window range. A fine Doric portico leads to a six-panelled door with an overlight, set within a mid-18th-century moulded wood architrave. There are flat stone arches over six-pane sash windows, raised storey bands, and early 19th-century wood brackets at the eaves.
On the right side wall, there is a six-window range with an early 19th-century doorway that features a large bracketed hood over a beaded four-panelled door flanked by lights and a decorative fanlight. A semi-circular arch is above a mid-18th-century six-panelled door with a fanlight, and flat stone arches are present over six-pane sashes, with thick glazing bars on five mid-18th-century sashes on the first floor.
Inside, there are mid-18th-century and 19th-century panelled doors. The room to the right contains mid-18th-century fielded panelling, while the room to the left has mid-18th-century panelled dados. The stair-hall at the rear features an early 19th-century dog-leg staircase with a landing, a wreathed handrail, and a wrought-iron balustrade. The panelled door architraves have paterae, and there are double doors with a decorative fanlight leading to the hall on the right, which has a stone flag floor.
The house was owned by wealthy London goldsmith John More from 1727 to 1737, after which he gave it to the Pryse family. The early 19th-century alterations occurred after 1803 when two properties on the site were amalgamated.
Local climate
Woodstock House 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 22 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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