John Hampden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1993. Cottage.

John Hampden Cottage

WRENN ID
leaning-loggia-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 November 1993
Type
Cottage
Address
John Hampden Cottage, 73, Mill Lane, Chalgrove
OS grid reference
SU 631 966
Coordinates
51.66544, -1.08791
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

John Hampden Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features a light scantling timber-frame structure with painted brick infill panels and a straw thatch roof with gabled and half-hipped ends. The cottage has a large painted stone rubble gable-end stack with set-offs and a brick shaft.

The layout likely consists of a two-room plan, with the left room being unheated and the right room heated by the gable-end stack. A single-storey outshut was added to the left end in the late 19th century or early 20th century.

The exterior is one storey and has an attic, with an asymmetrical front featuring two windows. There are small 20th-century casements and an attic window in a small eaves dormer. The central plank door is accompanied by a 20th-century wooden gabled porch, which appears to be made from earlier materials. Above the ground floor windows, there is a corrugated sheet steel pentice. The right gable-end has a large projecting stone rubble stack with set-offs, and the verges of the gable project to enclose the stack, supported by a long brace. The left end features a single-storey weatherboarded outshut with a corrugated sheet steel roof.

The interior is said to have exposed ceiling beams and a winder staircase.

Local climate

John Hampden 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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