The Elephant and Castle Inn is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Elephant and Castle Inn
- WRENN ID
- crooked-loggia-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Elephant and Castle Inn, Bridge Street, Bampton, OX18 2HA
- OS grid reference
- SP 312 030
- Coordinates
- 51.7249, -1.54867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Elephant and Castle Inn is a public house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century and the 1960s. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a 20th-century stone slate roof with raised eaves, which was previously thatched. The building has rubble stone chimneys located between the left bays and to the right, both of which were rebuilt in the 20th century.
The inn has a three-cell lobby-entry plan and later rear extensions, standing at one and a half storeys with three bays. The outer bays on the ground floor have canted bay windows, both of which were renewed in the 20th century. The central bay features a 19th-century tripartite sash window with a wooden lintel. The upper storey contains three gabled casements. The lobby entry, located between the left bays, has a 20th-century door with a flat stone hood supported by shaped stone brackets. There is another 20th-century door between the right bays, also with a wooden lintel.
Inside, the centre bay has a deeply chamfered ceiling beam with stops and a stop-chamfered wooden fireplace lintel. The right bay includes a narrower stop-chamfered spine beam, a blocked fireplace, and an axial stone winder staircase.
Local climate
The Elephant and Castle Inn 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- 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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