Woodleys Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Woodleys Cottage
- WRENN ID
- haunted-chapel-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Woodleys Cottage, the Street, Brightwell-Cum-Sotwell, OX10 0RB
- OS grid reference
- SU 578 909
- Coordinates
- 51.61438, -1.16631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodleys Cottage is a house that likely dates from the late 16th century, featuring a cruck-framed single-storey section on the left. The main part of the house was built in the mid-17th century. It has large timber framing with painted brick infill and a thatched roof that is hipped to the right. There is a brick ridge stack on the left and an end stack on the right. The cottage is two storeys high with a two-window range. A plank door is located to the right of the centre, with two-light casements to the right and centre, and a single-light window to the left of centre. On the first floor, there are two 2-light casements. To the left, there is a single-storey, single-window section that features a base cruck on the left return. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Woodleys 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 — 2 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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