Lower House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1988. House.
Lower House
- WRENN ID
- frozen-keep-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lower House, Spelsbury
- OS grid reference
- SP 390 215
- Coordinates
- 51.89076, -1.43388
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower House is a substantial house built in the late 18th century to early 19th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh-slate roof with brick stacks. The building is designed in an L shape and has two storeys. The main range displays a three-window arrangement of 16-pane sash windows set beneath flat arches, with a central glazed door. There is an additional ground-floor window in a two-window range that projects from the left side, while the wing contains the six-panel main entrance. The right end of the main range returns to the rear, and the roofs are hipped. The interior has not been inspected. Ditchley Park, where the house is located, is listed in the English Heritage Historic Gardens Register at Grade II*.
Local climate
Lower House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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