The Little White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. A C18 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Little White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-joist-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Little White Cottage, Rotherfield Greys, RG9 4QL
- OS grid reference
- SU 713 832
- Coordinates
- 51.5436, -0.97268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Little White Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage located in Rotherfield Greys, Shepherds Green. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill and a plain tile roof, which has a central brick ridge stack. The cottage has a two-unit plan and is one storey high with an attic, presenting a two-window range. There are three casement windows on the ground floor and a plank door positioned to the left of centre. The roof has gabled dormers in the attic and is half-hipped on the right side. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Little White 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 80% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 7 transactions since 1995
- 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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