Abbey Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. House.
Abbey Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-cinder-storm
- 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
- House
- Address
- Abbey Cottage, 30, High Street, Dorchester
- OS grid reference
- SU 577 943
- Coordinates
- 51.64497, -1.16631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, with an extension from the 18th century. It features timber framing with herringbone brick infill and some flared headers, topped by an old plain-tile roof with brick ridge stacks. The building has a 2-unit lobby-entry plan and a rear wing, standing two storeys high. The front has two windows and a central six-panel door, which is framed by an architrave and a flat canopy supported by shaped brackets. This door is flanked by large three-light casements, with smaller three-light casements on the first floor. The left gable wall jetties on four curved brackets, and the roof has a central clustered stack. The hip-roofed rear wing on the left is built in two phases, featuring a storey band and a three-light leaded casement set under a segmental arch. The interior has not been inspected. Abbey Cottage may have been linked with No. 28, which is to the right.
Local climate
Abbey 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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