Corn Exchange is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1970. A Victorian Office. 2 related planning applications.
Corn Exchange
- WRENN ID
- mired-hammer-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1970
- Type
- Office
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Corn Exchange, Market Street, Witney, OX28 6AB
- OS grid reference
- SP 356 096
- Coordinates
- 51.78428, -1.48471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Corn Exchange, now used as offices, was built in 1863. It is constructed from squared and coursed limestone, featuring rusticated pilaster strips and dressings, and has a gabled roof made of Welsh slate with stone end stacks. Designed in the Italian Classical style, the building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window arrangement.
The entrance includes a semi-circular arched doorway with rusticated surrounds leading to panelled double-leaf doors. Above the doorway is a balcony supported by two large brackets adorned with carved flower swags. The entrance is flanked by tripartite plate-glass sash windows with rusticated segmental-arched architraves. On the first floor, there are cross-windows set in moulded stone architraves, each topped with bracketed cornices and a central segmental pediment.
A modillioned stone cornice runs beneath a low parapet, and consoles flank a central open-pedimented gable that features ball finials and a lunette. The right side wall has keyed raised architraves, and there is a long rear wing that is one storey high with a five-window range. Inside, there is a mid-19th century staircase, a dado in the room to the left, and a braced queen-post roof in the first-floor chamber.
Local climate
Corn Exchange 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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