Primrose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. House. 2 related planning applications.
Primrose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- turning-fireplace-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Primrose Cottage, Main Street, Wroxton, OX15 6PT
- OS grid reference
- SP 413 418
- Coordinates
- 52.07312, -1.39818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Primrose Cottage is a house located on Wroxton Main Street, dating from the late 17th century but with earlier origins. It was partially rebuilt after a fire in 1666. The building is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble and features a steeply pitched thatched roof, with repointed stone ridge and end stacks. It has a three-unit plan, is two storeys high plus an attic and cellar, and has a two-window range. The entrance, which is from the rear, was added in the 20th century. The gable facing the street has renewed two-and three-light casement windows with stone flat arches, and there is a two-light stone mullioned cellar window with flat-splay mullions, hood moulds, and label stops. The right side of the cottage features a 20th-century bow window and 20th-century casements on both the ground and first floors. Inside, the cottage has chamfered beams and an inglenook fireplace with a stop-chamfered bressumer and a bread oven.
Local climate
Primrose 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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