The Black Horse Inn the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. Inn, cottage.

The Black Horse Inn the Cottage

WRENN ID
tilted-mullion-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford East MP: Anneliese Dodds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1954
Type
Inn, cottage
Address
The Black Horse Inn the Cottage, 102a, St Clements Street
OS grid reference
SP 523 059
Coordinates
51.75, -1.2429
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Black Horse Inn and The Cottage, located at 102 St Clement's Street, date back to the early 17th century. The north elevation features two stories of roughcast rubble with cellars, a tiled pent roof, a cornice at the first floor, and a boxed-out bar front on a brick base. The building has a modern tiled roof and brick stacks, with four gables; the two on the east are tile-hung and have modern four-light casement windows, while the two on the west feature 18th-century two-light casements. The east end of the first floor has modern four-light casements, and the west end has a double 18th- to 19th-century sash window. In front of the house, there is an unfenced forecourt with old cobble setts and trees. At the back, there are modern brick additions against the two gables of the original house, which also has a 17th-century staircase projection. The entire house has been recently repaired and partially remodeled, and the stabling at the back has been removed.

Inside, there is an original stone fireplace and some panelled doors, which were still present in 1949. Adjacent to the inn is The Cottage (No 102A), possibly from the 18th century, which is a single-storey building with a gabled attic dormer, a Welsh slate roof, and a boxed-out splayed 18th-century style sash window on a brick base.

Local climate

The Black Horse Inn the 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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