Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1972. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stranded-chamber-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oak Cottage, Defford, WR8 9BW
- OS grid reference
- SO 906 426
- Coordinates
- 52.08194, -2.13761
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a 17th-century timber-framed cottage featuring whitened brick nogging. It has a thatched roof with eyebrow dormers and is designed as a single storey with an attic. The windows are casements.
Local climate
Oak Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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