House at the Gap Approximately 5 Metres West of Holly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1988. House.
House at the Gap Approximately 5 Metres West of Holly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-corner-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1988
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SP 473 260
- Coordinates
- 51.93092, -1.31324
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This substantial house, located approximately 5 meters west of Holly Cottage, is likely from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century and later. It is constructed from coursed limestone and marl stone rubble, some of which is banded, and features wooden lintels. The roof is a combination of Welsh slate and concrete plain tiles, with rubble and rendered stacks. The building has an L-shaped layout and consists of two storeys plus an attic.
At the eastern end, a former cottage projects to the rear and has a regular two-window arrangement of two-light casements and a central plank door. The lower openings feature flat arches made of alternating limestone and ironstone, and the gable wall is banded with a rubble stack. Facing the road, there is a three-light ovolo-moulded wood-mullion window with a chamfered lintel, along with two small stair windows. The rest of the range and its return wing include 20th-century casements, some with stone lintels, while the west gable wall has a parapet and a chamfered stone stair window. The interior has not been inspected. This house is included for its group value.
Local climate
House at the Gap Approximately 5 Metres West of Holly Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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