Gingerbread Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Gingerbread Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-parapet-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gingerbread Cottage, Down End, Hook Norton, OX15 5LL
- OS grid reference
- SP 357 331
- Coordinates
- 51.99586, -1.48114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gingerbread Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with a likely late 17th century single-storey wing at the rear. It is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble and features a thatched roof. The building has three brick stacks on stone bases located at the ends and to the left of the center. It is designed as a single storey plus attic with a three-unit plan.
On the ground floor, there are three two-light wooden casements with lead cames and wooden lintels. The attic contains four two-light casements, mostly with lead cames. The entrance is positioned to the right of a two-storey circular stair turret projection, which also has a small casement. There is a blocked doorway to the left of the stair turret. The right elevation and the left end of the cottage feature buttresses. At the rear, there are two stone mullioned windows, one of which has hood moulds and label stops. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Gingerbread Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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