Fir Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Fir Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- high-banister-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fir Tree Cottage, Binfield Heath, RG9 4JT
- OS grid reference
- SU 741 791
- Coordinates
- 51.50663, -0.93251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fir Tree Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage featuring large timber framing with angle braces and painted brick infill. The cottage has a thatched roof and brick stacks. It has a two-unit plan and is one storey with an attic, presenting a two-window range with single-storey wings on both the left and right sides. There is a plank door located to the left of the center, four casement windows on the ground floor, and two dormers in the roof. A 20th-century wing has been added to the rear.
Local climate
Fir Tree 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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