1-4 Almshouses is a Grade II* listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1952. Almshouses. 1 related planning application.
1-4 Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- narrow-keystone-swallow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1952
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- 1-4 Almshouses, Church Street, Chipping Norton
- OS grid reference
- SP 313 272
- Coordinates
- 51.94318, -1.5459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 1-4 are almshouses built in 1640, as noted on the datestone that reads, "The work and Gift of Henry Cornish. Gent. 1640." They are constructed from coursed rubble stone with stone dressings and feature a gabled stone tiled roof with nine ridge stacks, some of which have been renewed. The roadside facade consists of eight gabled tenements, although there are now four dwellings. Each has 2-light mullion windows with dripstones in the gables, and 3-light mullions on the ground floor, all set beneath a continuous string course. The windows have 19th-century casements, and each cottage has a 19th-century plank door beneath a pedimented hood.
Local climate
1-4 Almshouses 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 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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