House at the Gap Approximately 5 Metres South 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 South West of Holly Cottage
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- 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
- 51.93081, -1.31308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house located approximately 5 meters southwest of Holly Cottage in Steeple Aston, dated 1729 according to a datestone, with alterations made in the late 18th century or early 19th century. The building is constructed from limestone rubble with wooden lintels and brick, topped with a Welsh-slate roof featuring stone and brick gable stacks. It has a unit plan and stands two storeys plus an attic high.
The front facade has two bays on the left that are taller, featuring a central six-panel door with re-used ovolo-moulded ashlar jambs. To the left, there is a late 18th century or early 19th century canted bay window, and to the right, a 20-pane sash window. On the first floor, there are 12-pane sash windows flanking a circular plaque inscribed "S/?H/1729". The shallow-pitched roof is slightly raised at the eaves and has stone-based stacks on either side of the higher section. The lower bay to the right has no visible openings and is partly obscured by outbuildings. At the rear, there is a hipped-roofed brick stair projection flanked by casement windows. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
House at the Gap Approximately 5 Metres South 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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