Parish Rooms is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1952. Parish room. 1 related planning application.

Parish Rooms

WRENN ID
calm-truss-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 April 1952
Type
Parish room
Address
Parish Rooms, Church Street, Chipping Norton, OX7 5NT
OS grid reference
SP 311 272
Coordinates
51.94333, -1.5476
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parish Rooms, built around 1840, are a single-storey structure located on Church Street in Chipping Norton. Constructed from coursed rubble and topped with a slate roof, the building features four three-light windows and flanking doorways, with the right-hand doorway originally being a two-light window. All openings are designed with drips and exhibit a Tudor Gothic style. It is noted that the building may incorporate surviving fragments of the original Grammar School.

Local climate

Parish Rooms 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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