Cedar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
Cedar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-rafter-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cedar Cottage, North Side, Steeple Aston, OX25 4SE
- OS grid reference
- SP 474 260
- Coordinates
- 51.9305, -1.31131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cedar Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th and 18th centuries, with extensions made in the 20th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble and features wooden lintels, topped with a thatched roof and rubble and brick stacks. The original two-unit plan has been expanded to three units, along with later additions. The cottage is one storey plus an attic.
The front of the house has three windows, with the left two bays being the earlier sections. These bays include a central rounded projection for a bread oven, located to the left of the entrance. Both bays have renewed two-light casement windows on the ground floor and 18th-century leaded three-light half dormers. The 18th-century rubble bay to the right also has a similar renewed dormer and features a gable parapet. The gable stacks are made of brick, while the stack aligned with the oven is made of rubble.
At the rear, there is a rounded stair projection in line with the rubble stack, which retains an old window. A two-storey thatched rear wing, added in the 20th century, extends from the right end of the cottage. Inside, the cottage features stop-chamfered beams, one of which has barred stops, along with two open fireplaces—one of which is very large with inglenooks and the bread oven—and a spiral stair.
Local climate
Cedar 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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