Lovegrove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1986. House. 1 related planning application.

Lovegrove Cottage

WRENN ID
fallen-steeple-ochre
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
Lovegrove Cottage, High Street, Long Wittenham, OX14 4QQ
OS grid reference
SU 543 935
Coordinates
51.63851, -1.21573
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lovegrove Cottage is a house dating from the mid-17th century, with an extension added in the 18th century. The building features painted brick on the left side of the ground floor, while the rest is rendered timber-framing. It has a thatched roof that is half hipped to the right, and a central brick ridge stack. The cottage is single storey with an attic and has a four-window range that runs at right angles to the street. A 20th-century porch with a plank door is located to the left of the center, and a 20th-century glazed door with a gabled hood is to the right of the center. The ground floor has two-light casement windows, except for a three-light casement window to the left of the center. There are two gabled dormers, and the roof structure features queen-post construction with some windbraces. Inside, there are open fireplaces located to the right of the center.

Local climate

Lovegrove 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 — 10 transactions since 1997
  • 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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