Foxtownsend Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. Cottage. 9 related planning applications.
Foxtownsend Cottages
- WRENN ID
- half-truss-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Foxtownsend Cottages, 1 and 2, Heyford Road, Kirtlington, OX5 3HS
- OS grid reference
- SP 500 201
- Coordinates
- 51.87795, -1.27488
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are a pair of cottages dating from the early to mid-18th century, situated on the west side of Heyford Road in Kirtlington. The cottages are constructed of squared limestone, with a concrete roof covered in plain tiles and brick gable stacks. Each cottage has a single-room plan. The two-storey façade originally featured a four-window arrangement. The outer bays include two-light casement windows, with the upper windows having renewed cross frames. The inner bays have single-light transom windows above entrance doors, which are positioned to flank a central four-panel doorway. All ground-floor window and door openings are topped with stone flat arches. The arches over the outer doorways are built from ashlar stone, potentially indicating an earlier alteration that replaced entrances from a shared passage. Number 2, the right-hand cottage, has a 20th-century casement window inserted into the façade. The rear of the cottages retains an original roof dormer and some original casement windows with leaded glazing. The interiors were not inspected as part of the listing process.
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- 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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