Holly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1988. House.
Holly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-soffit-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Holly Cottage, North Side, Steeple Aston
- OS grid reference
- SP 473 260
- Coordinates
- 51.93096, -1.31287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Cottage is a house built in 1729, as indicated by a datestone. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with squared quoins and some wooden lintels, topped with a concrete plain-tile roof and brick gable stacks. The house has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high, plus an attic. The symmetrical front features three windows with 2-light casements that are taller on the first floor, all having chamfered lintels. There is a central doorway with an ashlar flat arch, which contains a reset 16th or early 17th century ogee-moulded door frame with elaborate chamfer stops. Above the door, there is a stone plaque inscribed with "S/TM/1729". Inside, above the fireplace, is a fine reset 16th century Tudor-arched bressumer with recessed spandrels. The re-used features are believed to have originated from Middle Aston House.
Local climate
Holly 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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