Quarr Cottage the Olde Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. A C17 Farmhouse.
Quarr Cottage the Olde Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stranded-pillar-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Quarr Cottage the Olde Cottage, Thame Road, Warborough
- OS grid reference
- SU 598 935
- Coordinates
- 51.6376, -1.13709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Quarr Cottage and The Olde Cottage is a farmhouse that has been divided into two houses. It dates from the 17th and 18th centuries and features timber framing with rendered infill, as well as coursed clunch rubble. The roofs are covered with plain tiles and have brick ridge stacks. The building has a two-unit plan and has been extended, standing two storeys plus attics on one side and one storey plus attics on the other. The earlier timber-framed section has a door to the right and irregular casement windows, including small stair windows located just to the right of the central post. A large clustered stack rises at the junction with the lower rubble range to the left. The Olde Cottage includes a four-panelled door aligned with the stack, while the remainder of the rubble range, which has a 20th-century extension to the left, forms Quarr Cottage. This section features segmental-arched openings and a dormer at both the front and rear. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
Quarr Cottage the Olde 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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