Foxtownsend Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. House. 9 related planning applications.
Foxtownsend Cottages
- WRENN ID
- former-render-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Foxtownsend Cottages, 3 and 4, Heyford Road, Kirtlington, OX5 3HT
- OS grid reference
- SP 500 202
- Coordinates
- 51.87852, -1.27446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Foxtownsend Cottages is a pair of small houses dating from the 18th century. They are constructed of coursed limestone rubble with some ashlar dressings and wooden lintels, topped with a Stonesfield-slate roof and featuring brick stacks. Each cottage has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high with an attic. The front of each cottage has two windows, with a central doorway situated between two-light casements that have lintels. The first floor also features similar casements with ashlar flat arches. Number 3 has a 20th-century porch, while Number 4 has a 19th-century slated canopy. The right end wall has two windows with leaded glazing. The roof has three stacks, stone gable parapets with projecting kneelers, and includes one gabled roof dormer for each cottage. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
Foxtownsend Cottages 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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