Griffin House and Stable is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1987. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
Griffin House and Stable
- WRENN ID
- high-spandrel-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Griffin House and Stable, Between Towns, Swerford
- OS grid reference
- SP 373 313
- Coordinates
- 51.97923, -1.45718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Griffin House and Stable is a public house, now a house, dating from 1691, although it may incorporate earlier fabric. The building is constructed of coursed squared marlstone with some limestone-rubble banding, featuring wooden lintels and a Welsh-slate roof with stone and brick stacks. It has a largely L-shaped layout.
The main three-window front, facing the road, is built of banded rubble, with a central plank door. To the right is a three-light casement window, and to the left a four-light casement. The first floor has casement windows of three, two, and three lights, with the window to the left featuring ovolo-moulded wood mullions and frame. A datestone to the left of centre is carved with drapery and inscribed "RB/1691". A stable bay is situated to the right, with a loft door and a stable door, though this section is partly obscured. The roof has stacks flaking the house bays, with a rendered stone base to the right stack.
The left gable wall reveals a further entrance and returns to a lower rear wing, which has a large three-light casement window above two smaller wood-mullioned windows. A stair tower in the angle of the ranges includes a blocked two-light, ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned window with intermediate bars, and a three-light window with chamfered mullions and bars. Most lintels are characterised by moulded chamfer stops. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Griffin House and Stable receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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