Spenser's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Small house. 3 related planning applications.
Spenser's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- salt-baluster-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1985
- Type
- Small house
- Address
- Spenser's Cottage, Great Haseley, OX44 7LL
- OS grid reference
- SP 642 006
- Coordinates
- 51.70131, -1.07234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spenser's Cottage is a small house built in the early 18th century. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and features a thatched roof with a brick gable stack. The cottage has a two-unit plan with a subsidiary wing and stands two storeys high. The front has two windows and a door located to the left of centre, positioned between two-light casements. There are smaller casements on the first floor and an additional casement in a tiled single-storey range to the left. All windows are fitted with 20th-century leaded lights. The roof has a stack on the left side and a half hip on the right, along with a lateral stack at the rear. Inside, there is an open fireplace with bressumers and a flanking winder stair, as well as chamfered and stopped beams and a clasped-purlin roof.
Local climate
Spenser's Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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