Thimble Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Thimble Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-barrel-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thimble Cottage, High Street, North Moreton, OX11 9AT
- OS grid reference
- SU 561 892
- Coordinates
- 51.59953, -1.1906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thimble Cottage is a house dating from the 18th century. It features a rendered brick base with large timber-framing and painted brick infill, topped by a thatch roof. The building has a brick end stack on the right and ridge stacks on both the left and right of the centre. It is a single storey with an attic and has a three-window range. The entrance is a plank door located in the centre, and the windows are irregularly arranged casements. There are two swept dormers, and the left return showcases timber-framing. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Thimble Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- 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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