Wheatsheaf Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1988. Public house.
Wheatsheaf Cottage
- WRENN ID
- watchful-lantern-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1988
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Wheatsheaf Cottage, Thorpe Road, Wardington
- OS grid reference
- SP 491 463
- Coordinates
- 52.11338, -1.28342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wheatsheaf Cottage is a public house that has been converted into a house. It dates from the 17th century and has undergone later alterations. The building is constructed of squared, coursed ironstone and features a steeply pitched roof covered with 20th-century tiles, along with stone-coped gables and moulded kneelers. The chimney stacks have been renewed in brick during the 20th century.
The cottage has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high with an attic, positioned gable end facing the road. The side elevation has two windows, while the elevation facing Thorpe Road includes two 20th-century ground floor windows and a blocked first floor window. In the attic, there is a two-light casement window with a wooden lintel. The entrance is off-centre to the left, featuring a panelled and glazed door with a wooden lintel. To the right of the entrance, there is a four-light metal casement window in a wooden frame with a wooden lintel. The first floor has a two-light and a three-light metal casement window, both in wooden frames with wooden lintels. There is also a small rectangular stone-framed window on the right and ironstone quoins.
The interior reportedly includes an inglenook fireplace, beams, and an original staircase. The building was once part of the Wheatsheaf Public House.
Local climate
Wheatsheaf 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 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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