86, Freehold Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1988. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
86, Freehold Street
- WRENN ID
- first-chamber-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 86, Freehold Street, Lower Heyford, OX25 5NT
- OS grid reference
- SP 490 247
- Coordinates
- 51.91951, -1.28866
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century cottage, with 20th-century additions, located on Freehold Street. The exterior is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with wooden lintels, and it is topped with a thatched roof featuring a brick gable stack. The cottage follows a single-unit plan. It has two storeys and a two-window front. The first floor has two-light casement windows. The ground floor features two larger, renewed casement windows, and a 20th-century porch housing the doorway on the extreme right. The central opening likely represents the original doorway location. A stack is visible on the left gable wall, which is partially obscured by a single-storey 20th-century extension. Inside, the bedroom ceilings are partly formed by the plastered underside of the thatch. The cottage is part of a group of similar thatched cottages situated at the upper end of Freehold Street, alongside numbers 80, 93, and 105.
Local climate
86, Freehold Street 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 — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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