Highland Cottage and Above the Well Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
Highland Cottage and Above the Well Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rusted-barrel-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Highland Cottage and Above the Well Cottage, the Hill, Souldern, OX27 7JE
- OS grid reference
- SP 523 314
- Coordinates
- 51.97916, -1.23961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highland Cottage and Above the Well Cottage are a pair of houses built in the mid-18th century, with alterations in the 20th century. They are constructed from squared coursed limestone, and have a steeply pitched, continuous thatched roof, with a stone end stack on the right-hand side. The houses follow a two-unit plan. A 20th-century porch with a hipped roof sits at the front, flanked by 20th-century wooden casement windows with painted wooden lintels. The first floor has two two-light windows of a similar design. A fire plaque is present. Limestone quoins mark the corners of the building. A cottage abuts the right-hand side. The entrance to the left features a plank door and wooden lintel, alongside a two-light wooden casement window also with a wooden lintel. The first floor has two matching two-light windows. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
Highland Cottage and Above the Well 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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 — 7 transactions since 2006
- 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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