Pickets Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Pickets Cottage
- WRENN ID
- high-pediment-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pickets Cottage, Behoes Lane, Woodcote, RG8 0PP
- OS grid reference
- SU 637 820
- Coordinates
- 51.53408, -1.08268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pickets Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that has undergone alterations and additions in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features timber framing with rendered infill and a thatched roof, complemented by a brick ridge stack. The cottage has a two-unit plan, is single storey with an attic, and consists of a two-bay range. There is a central half-glazed door from the 20th century leading to a 20th-century porch. The windows are irregularly arranged casements, and the roof is hipped with dormers at the rear. Inside, there is an original fireplace located on the ground floor to the right, and the ground floor has chamfered spine beams with ogee stops. The attic retains queen post roof trusses, along with most common rafters and wind braces.
Local climate
Pickets 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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