Benefit Office is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1970. Office. 1 related planning application.
Benefit Office
- WRENN ID
- over-tracery-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1970
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Benefit Office, 28, Bridge Street, Witney, OX28 1HY
- OS grid reference
- SP 358 103
- Coordinates
- 51.79022, -1.48111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former County Hall and Law Courts, now a Social Security Office, dating from 1848. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with stone ashlar stacks and a flat roof that is not visible. The design is in a Baroque style. The main facade is one storey and comprises a four-window range. A projecting and rusticated central bay provides the main entrance, which features a keyed and cavetto-moulded semi-circular arched architrave above a six-panelled door. The windows have margin-lights and are set in semi-circular-arched surrounds with blocked architraves; a moulded band runs at impost level. A bracketed cornice sits below a parapet, which is topped by Royal Arms. Smaller windows are located beneath the eaves to the rear, indicating the presence of former law courts. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Benefit Office 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 2000
- 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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