Virginia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. A C16 House. 4 related planning applications.
Virginia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-threshold-cream
- 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
- Virginia Cottage, 21, High Street, Dorchester, OX10 7HH
- OS grid reference
- SU 578 942
- Coordinates
- 51.64368, -1.16563
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Virginia Cottage is a house dating from the 16th or 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It features rendered timber framing set on a rubble plinth, topped by an old plain-tile roof that has a brick ridge stack. The building has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys tall. The front has been remodeled at the ground floor, with an entrance located between two bow windows on the left, and a further entrance along with garage doors beneath a tiled canopy on the right. On the first floor, there is a long window on the left consisting of two 2-light casements and two horizontal-sliding sashes, while the right side has a 4-light casement that includes some leaded glazing. The roof is half-hipped on the left and features a central stack. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Virginia 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 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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