Masons Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1987. Public house. 1 related planning application.
Masons Arms Public House
- WRENN ID
- little-keep-burdock
- 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
- Masons Arms Public House, A361, Swerford
- OS grid reference
- SP 384 308
- Coordinates
- 51.97518, -1.44217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Masons Arms Public House is a public house built in 1831, as indicated by a datestone. It features a combination of marlstone ashlar and coursed squared rubble, topped with a Welsh-slate roof and a brick gable stack. The building is designed in an L-shape and consists of two storeys.
The ashlar front has a prominent central section that is higher than the flanking sections, featuring three windows, pilasters, a storey band, and a triangular pediment. This pediment contains a limestone relief with arms and the date. The middle bay projects forward and has a smaller pediment above a first-floor window, along with an added shallow-gabled ashlar porch that has a cambered archway. This porch shelters a doorway with a blind tympanum and a door made of radiating planks. The outer two bays are fitted with 20th-century casements, except for the left side of the door, which has a 16-pane sash window flanked by narrow inserted sashes.
To the left of the central section is a lower bay with a pediment that features a three-centre arched doorway in a projecting surround. On the extreme left, there is the end of a hipped-roofed range that returns to the rear, which has a three-centre arched carriage entrance with a keyblock, now converted into a window. To the right of the central section is a corresponding bay without a pediment, where the projecting door surround extends up to the eaves, and its right end has a gable parapet. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Masons Arms Public 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 64% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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