Briar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1966. House. 3 related planning applications.
Briar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-render-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Briar Cottage, the Green, Bletchingdon, OX5 3DH
- OS grid reference
- SP 502 176
- Coordinates
- 51.85492, -1.2713
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Briar Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th or early 18th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a gabled concrete tile roof and a stone ridge stack on the left-hand side. The house follows a 3-unit plan, and has one storey with an attic, featuring a 4-window front. Flat stone arches are above the 20th-century door and windows, with a timber lintel above a 20th-century window to the left. There are three gabled dormers. The interior contains chamfered beams.
Local climate
Briar 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 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 — 13 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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