Ardgowan the Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. Cottage.
Ardgowan the Cottages
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-entrance-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ardgowan the Cottages, Oxford Road, Weston-On-The-Green
- OS grid reference
- SP 532 189
- Coordinates
- 51.86622, -1.22768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ardgowan The Cottages is a row of three cottages, originally built in the 16th or 17th century. The cottages are constructed with cruck framing and limestone rubble, featuring wooden lintels and a thatched roof with brick stacks. The building has two single-unit plans and one two-unit plan, rising to one storey plus attics. The front is irregular, with a three-light casement window in the far left bay and two-light casements in the other three bays, each with a two-light dormer above. The third bay includes a wide plank door, while the fourth bay has an additional small window. The roof is topped with two ridge stacks and a gable stack on the left. Inside, the second unit has a winder stair and a cruck frame, which may be a base cruck, featuring arched braces to the tiebeam. Ardgowan, which comprises bays three and four, contains at least one cruck frame.
Local climate
Ardgowan the Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
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