Alpha Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
Alpha Cottage
- WRENN ID
- open-wattle-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Alpha Cottage, Main Street, Wroxton, OX15 6QN
- OS grid reference
- SP 409 417
- Coordinates
- 52.07235, -1.40343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alpha Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 18th century, with alterations from the 19th century. A datestone reading "RL 1822" is visible. The house is constructed of coursed squared ironstone, with a steeply pitched thatched roof and renewed brick end stacks. The original layout comprised two units, with a single-storey extension added to the rear. The main façade is arranged with a three-window range. A 20th-century porch is centrally positioned, and flanked by canted bay windows with 20th-century windows. The first floor has two renewed wooden casement windows retaining their original wooden lintels, and a blocked central window also with a wooden lintel. Ironstone quoins are present. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Alpha 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- 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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