Hunters Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1988. House. 8 related planning applications.
Hunters Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-corbel-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hunters Cottage, Somerton Road, Ardley, OX27 7NS
- OS grid reference
- SP 539 275
- Coordinates
- 51.94419, -1.21622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A late 17th-century house located on the south side of Somerton Road, Ardley. The house is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with wooden lintels and has a thatched roof. A rubble-and-brick gable stack is present. Originally a two-unit plan building, it now has two storeys plus an attic. The front, facing the garden, features a doorway situated to the left of the centre, a two-light casement to its left, and a three-light casement, that originally had four lights. The first floor has casements of two and three lights. All windows have stop-chamfered lintels. A stack on the right side has paired brick shafts. An outshut has been added to the left side of the building. The rear elevation contains further two- and three-light casements with stop-chamfered lintels, as well as two small stair windows. The interior includes a very large open fireplace with a stop-chamfered bressumer. There is also a chamber fireplace within the splay of the chimney breast, along with stop-chamfered beams and a butt-purlin roof.
Local climate
Hunters Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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