Major's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1986. House.
Major's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stranded-gargoyle-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Major's Cottage, 15, Henley Road, Warborough
- OS grid reference
- SU 595 927
- Coordinates
- 51.63076, -1.14083
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Major's Cottage is a small house dating from the mid-18th century. It features rendered walls and an old plain-tile roof with brick gable stacks. The building has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high. The front has two windows, with a brick dentil eaves course, a central door, a 12-pane sash window to the left, and a 16-pane sash window to the right. There are also two small 12-pane sashes on the first floor. The rear of the house has 20th-century extensions. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Major's 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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