Primrose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
Primrose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- odd-balcony-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford East MP: Anneliese Dodds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Primrose Cottage, 65, Oxford Road, Old Marston, OX3 0PH
- OS grid reference
- SP 528 084
- Coordinates
- 51.77204, -1.23585
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Primrose Cottage is a small house dating from the mid-to-late 17th century with alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is built of colourwashed limestone rubble, some squared and coursed, with timber lintels, and has a thatched and old plain-tile roof. The house has a two-unit plan, with a later extension. The two-storey, three-window front has earlier thatched bays to the right, containing a plank door between two-light casement windows, and small-pane casements of two and three lights at the first floor. A tiled bay to the left has casements with brick jambs. Irregular casements are found at the rear. Inside, a large chimney is located on the right, with a built-up fireplace and a flanking rear lobby. There is a jowled post with an ogee moulding, a central timber-framed partition possibly forming the end wall of an earlier house, and a blocked wood-mullion window at the first floor.
Local climate
Primrose 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.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- 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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