Abbey Thorn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. House.
Abbey Thorn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sombre-flagstone-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Abbey Thorn Cottage, Aston Street, Aston Tirrold, OX11 9DQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 557 858
- Coordinates
- 51.56899, -1.19772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Thorn Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with 20th-century additions on the left side. It features large timber framing with rendered infill and a thatched roof, along with a 20th-century brick chimney stack on the right. The building is two stories high and has a three-window range that is positioned at right angles to the street. There is a 20th-century plank door with a 20th-century open porch that has a hipped plain-tile roof, located to the left of the center. To the left of the door is a horizontal sash window, while to the right is a three-light wood casement window. On the first floor, there are three 2-light wood casement windows. Inside, the cottage has extensive beaming and some wattle and daub infill. The 20th-century cross-wing on the left is designed in the same style, and there is a single-storey extension on the right with a hipped thatch roof.
Local climate
Abbey Thorn 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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