St Mary's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. House.
St Mary's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- watchful-truss-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- St Mary's Cottage, Church Street, Beckley and Stowood
- OS grid reference
- SP 562 113
- Coordinates
- 51.79759, -1.18608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Mary's Cottage is an early 19th-century building that was originally part of a row of cottages and is now a house. It is constructed from limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features an old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. The structure is a single range, likely consisting of three two-unit cottages, and stands two storeys high. The six-window front includes segmental-arched doorways located in the center and at both the extreme left and right ends, along with three original and two inserted two-light stone-mullioned windows. There are six similar windows on the first floor, all of which have old leaded lights. The roof has a shallow pitch with stacks positioned near the left and right ends. Inside, the cottage features sawn and bolted queen-post trusses, showcasing an early and convincing reuse of a traditional style.
Local climate
St Mary's 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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