The Poachers Rest, The Stores, Shop Adjacent and Cotsfield is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. Restaurant, shops, house. 2 related planning applications.

The Poachers Rest, The Stores, Shop Adjacent and Cotsfield

WRENN ID
rusted-buttress-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Type
Restaurant, shops, house
Address
The Poachers Rest, The Stores, Shop Adjacent and Cotsfield, Market Square, Bampton
OS grid reference
SP 314 031
Coordinates
51.72662, -1.54612
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Poachers Rest, together with The Stores, an adjacent shop, and Cotsfield, is a restaurant, two shops, and a house built as a single range, dating from 1795 as indicated by a tablet inscribed "TP 1795". It is located on Bampton Market Square.

The building is constructed of coursed rubble limestone and has a stone slate roof, with brick ridge chimneys positioned to the left and between bays 4 and 5. It is two storeys and an attic in height, with six bays. The windows are mostly old 3-light wood and metal casements, many with single horizontal glazing bars. Two first-floor windows on the left-hand side have old leaded glazing. All windows are set within flat stone arches.

The ground floor has been altered in later centuries. The second bay has a mid-to-late 19th-century canted bay window, originally used as a shop, and a 20th-century half-glazed door to the left. The third bay has a 20th-century canted shop window. The fourth bay features a 20th-century glazed door and a smaller, blocked window with a wooden lintel that bears a shop sign. The fifth bay contains a 20th-century glazed door and a small wooden window beneath a shared lintel. A 19th-century half-glazed door is found in the right-hand bay. Most doorways are topped with flat stone arches. Four small gabled roof dormers are visible, each with paired leaded casements.

Local climate

The Poachers Rest, The Stores, Shop Adjacent and Cotsfield receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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  • Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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