Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Garden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-postern-twilight
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Garden Cottage, Drayton St. Leonard, OX10 7BE
- OS grid reference
- SU 600 962
- Coordinates
- 51.66221, -1.13317
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located in Drayton St. Leonard. The building has a painted brick plinth and is largely timber-framed with rendered infill, topped with a thatched roof. A brick stack rises from the centre of the ridge. The cottage follows a two-unit lobby-entry plan and is single-storey with an attic. It has a two-window front. A plank door is centrally located, sheltered by an open thatched porch. To the left of the door is a four-light leaded casement window, and to the right a three-light leaded casement. Two swept dormers are visible in the roof, each containing a three-light leaded casement. Single-storey wings extend to the left and right of the main cottage. The right wing is timber-framed with rendered infill and a hipped thatched roof, featuring two two-light leaded casement windows. The left wing is a mix of brick and timber framing, with a stone rubble end wall incorporating ashlar dressings. It has an old plain-tile roof and a stone end stack. Inside, there are open fireplaces on the ground floor, and chamfered spine beams are also present on the ground floor.
Local climate
Garden 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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