Church Key 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.
Church Key Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-eave-amber
- 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
- Church Key Cottage, the Walk, Islip, OX5 2SD
- OS grid reference
- SP 526 140
- Coordinates
- 51.82247, -1.23694
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Key Cottage is a small house, possibly originally two cottages, dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone rubble with wooden lintels and features a concrete plain-tile roof with rubble and brick end stacks. The building has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high. The front has two windows, each with tall, renewed two-light casements on both floors. To the left of the centre, there is a plank door, with a second doorway that has been blocked to the right. Inside, the cottage has chamfered beams and two open fireplaces. The cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Church Key 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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