Willow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.

Willow Cottage

WRENN ID
sharp-pewter-honey
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
Willow Cottage, Wendlebury, Bicester, OX25 2PW
OS grid reference
SP 560 196
Coordinates
51.87253, -1.18658
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Willow Cottage is a small house that dates from the early to mid 17th century, with some 20th-century alterations. It is built of coursed limestone rubble and features wooden lintels, topped with a Welsh-slate roof and a rebuilt brick gable stack. The house has a single-unit plan that has been enlarged, standing two storeys plus an attic. The front of the earlier section displays renewed 2-light casements on both the ground and first floors, along with a 20th-century dormer. The left gable wall has a large rubble chimney projection with sloping offsets and a small window featuring an old chamfered frame. To the right, a 20th-century bay window projects outwards, replacing an earlier cottage that may have been connected to the existing structure at some point.

Inside, the ground floor contains a large open fireplace with a stop-chamfered bressumer, along with heavy stop-chamfered beams and joists, all marked with assembly numbers. The first floor features a chamber fireplace with a cambered stop-chamfered bressumer, and the beams and joists here are of a similar but slightly lighter pattern. All joists have soffit tenons with diminished haunches, and there is a winder stair leading to the attic, as well as some old plank doors.

Local climate

Willow 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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