Holywell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. House. 1 related planning application.
Holywell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pale-mantel-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- Holywell Cottage, St Cross Road, OX1 3TN
- OS grid reference
- SP 519 065
- Coordinates
- 51.75515, -1.2491
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holywell Cottage is a late 17th-century, two-storey building constructed from plastered rubble and topped with a Welsh slate hipped roof. The roof features three gabled attic dormers, each containing two-light casement windows. On the first floor, there are five two-light mullioned and transomed wood-framed windows, while the ground floor has four similar windows. The plain doorway is framed in wood and includes a rectangular fanlight. Inside, there are some original doors.
Local climate
Holywell 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 — 1 application
- 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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