Groom's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. A Restoration House. 3 related planning applications.
Groom's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-window-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Period
- Restoration
- Address
- Groom's Cottage, Cook's Hill, Shutford, OX15 6PL
- OS grid reference
- SP 385 404
- Coordinates
- 52.06122, -1.43887
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Groom's Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century, with 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble and features a steeply pitched roof covered with 20th-century tiles. The building has brick stacks at both ends and along the ridge. The layout is a three-unit plan, and it stands two storeys tall with a three-window range. The approximately central entrance has a 20th-century door with a wooden lintel. On the ground floor, there are three 20th-century windows, each with wooden lintels, as well as a blocked fire window that has a stone-framed surround. The first floor contains three 20th-century windows with wooden lintels and another blocked window. To the right, there is a blocked entrance that has an inserted 20th-century window. Inside, there are plank doors and an inglenook fireplace with a renewed bressumer. The front elevation displays some burned stones. The cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Groom's 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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