Downend Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1984. House. 5 related planning applications.
Downend Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-garret-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Downend Cottage, Down End, Hook Norton, OX15 5LW
- OS grid reference
- SP 357 332
- Coordinates
- 51.99639, -1.48065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downend Cottage is a 17th-century house located in Hook Norton. It is constructed from coursed ironstone rubble, with banding of ironstone and limestone quoins on the right. The cottage features a thatched roof and has two brick end stacks, with the left stack resting on a stone base. The building has a two-unit plan and is a single storey plus attic, with a two-window range. The ground floor includes four-light casements, and there is a chamfered and stopped lintel to the left. To the right, a bay window has a stone base and a flat roof. The attic contains two three-light casements with stop-chamfered lintels. Additionally, stone mullions of a cellar are visible beneath the left window, and there is a blocked doorway on the right with a wooden lintel. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Downend Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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