The Monks Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Monks Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ragged-mortar-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Monks Cottage, the Walk, Islip, OX5 2SD
- OS grid reference
- SP 526 140
- Coordinates
- 51.82277, -1.23707
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Monks Cottage is a house that was formerly divided into three cottages, dating from the 17th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble with wooden lintels and features a thatched roof with rubble and brick stacks. The building has an L-plan layout and is one storey plus an attic.
The garden front is long and irregular, with two entrances located near the ends. It includes four casement windows with three lights and five first-floor windows, most of which are half dormers. All windows have leaded glazing, with some being quite old. The left gable wall features large leaded casements. The rear wing, which faces the road on the right, has segmental-arched openings and additional dormers. The rear wall curves around the boundary of the churchyard and has a rounded projection that once contained a stair. Inside, there are some chamfered beams.
Local climate
The Monks Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 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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