Thimble Cottage and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Thimble Cottage and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- carved-solder-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thimble Cottage and Attached Barn, Dark Lane, Wroxton, OX15 6QQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 413 416
- Coordinates
- 52.07187, -1.3986
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thimble Cottage and the attached barn are located on Dark Lane in Wroxton. The house is dated 1699, while the barn dates from the 18th century. The house is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble and features a steeply pitched thatched roof with brick end stacks. It has a two-unit plan with a rear outshot, and the thatch extends approximately 1 metre above ground level. The building is two storeys high and has a two-window range, with two renewed wood casements and wood lintels on both the ground and first floors. There is a 20th-century entrance at the rear. The single-storey barn has been converted into domestic accommodation and is also made of coursed, squared ironstone rubble with a thatched roof. Garage doors are located on the right side of the barn. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Thimble Cottage and Attached Barn 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 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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