Forge Cottage, Barn End Cottage and the Barn is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1973. A C17 House, barn. 7 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage, Barn End Cottage and the Barn
- WRENN ID
- slow-pier-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1973
- Type
- House, barn
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Barn End Cottage and the Barn, Sydenham
- OS grid reference
- SP 730 018
- Coordinates
- 51.71087, -0.9439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage, Barn End Cottage, and The Barn comprise a 17th-century house with a 19th-century addition, now divided into three dwellings. The house is timber framed with painted brick infill, with roughcast on brick to the left; it has a thatched roof, with old plain tiles to the left, and brick ridge stacks to the left and right of the centre, along with a 19th-century end stack to the left. It is a single-storey building with an attic, featuring a 4-window front, alongside a 2-storey, single-window addition to the left. A 20th-century plank door sits to the left of the centre, with further 20th-century plank doors positioned centrally and to the right of the centre. The windows are generally irregular, mostly consisting of 2-light casements. Four swept dormers are present. The interiors have not been inspected. Attached to the right is a barn, now converted into a house, featuring a 20th-century brick plinth, weatherboarding (likely on brick), and a thatched roof, half-hipped to the right. This barn is of single-storey and attic height, with a single-window range, and has a carriageway to the left and a 20th-century casement window to the right.
Local climate
Forge Cottage, Barn End Cottage and the Barn 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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