The Cottage (Adjoining Briela) is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. House.
The Cottage (Adjoining Briela)
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-transept-tallow
- 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
- House
- OS grid reference
- SP 650 048
- Coordinates
- 51.73856, -1.05953
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage, adjoining Briela, is a house dating from the early to mid-18th century. It is constructed of colourwashed rubble with ashlar dressings and features an old plain-tile roof with brick gable stacks. The building has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high. The symmetrical front has three windows and is accented by ashlar quoins and a first-floor sill band. A plank door is situated between three-light casements that are topped with massive stone lintels. At the first floor, similar casements flank a blind window, and there is a gable outshut to the right. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Cottage (Adjoining Briela) 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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