Virginia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Virginia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ghost-oriel-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Virginia Cottage, Church Street, Wroxton, OX15 6QE
- OS grid reference
- SP 417 418
- Coordinates
- 52.07328, -1.3928
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Virginia Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century, situated in Wroxham, Church Street. It is constructed of regular coursed ironstone rubble with a steeply pitched thatched roof and a brick end stack on a stone base. The cottage is a single storey with an attic, and has a three-window attic range, presenting its gable to the road. The front elevation features a three-light stone mullioned cellar window and a renewed three-light casement window on both the ground and attic floors, with painted, original wood lintels. A small, blocked stone mullioned wooden window is located near the apex of the gable. An entrance on the right side has a 20th-century door and wood lintel. The ground floor has two renewed casement windows, while the first floor has three, both with wood lintels. Inside, there are chamfered beam ceilings and an inglenook fireplace with a bressumer. There is a tradition that the interior was dated 1684, although this date is now covered.
Local climate
Virginia Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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