Canal Cottage and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1988. Canal house. 5 related planning applications.
Canal Cottage and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-stair-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1988
- Type
- Canal house
- Address
- Canal Cottage and Attached Railings, Station Road, Lower Heyford, OX25 5PD
- OS grid reference
- SP 483 246
- Coordinates
- 51.91854, -1.29843
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Canal Cottage is an early 19th-century canal house located on Station Road in Lower Heyford. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring limestone lintels, and has a Welsh-slate roof with brick stacks. The building has an L-shaped plan and stands two storeys high. The symmetrical front has three windows and a central doorway, which is topped by a small stone canopy supported by shaped brackets, situated below a blind window. The outer bays contain 16-pane sash windows. The shallow-pitched roof extends at the eaves and verge, with stacks positioned at both ends. A rear wing extends from the right side and includes a large sash window, five panes wide, facing left. The interior has not been inspected. Attached railings curve out from the right side of the front and connect to panelled stone gatepiers at the center. To the left, a low brick wall connects a straight section of railings to the house, both of which adjoin a rubble wall leading to the canal bridge. This building was formerly the manager's house for Grantham's Wharf.
Local climate
Canal Cottage and Attached Railings 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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