Merry Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
Merry Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rough-foundation-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Merry Cottage, Main Street, Forest Hill with Shotover, OX33 1DY
- OS grid reference
- SP 583 077
- Coordinates
- 51.76575, -1.15584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Merry Cottage is a small house dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It is constructed of colourwashed limestone rubble with timber lintels and features a thatched roof with a stone and brick gable stack. The building has a two-unit plan and is one storey plus attics. The front elevation has two windows and a central 20th-century tiled porch. To the left, there is a three-light casement window, and to the right, there is an enlarged three-light casement window. There are also two small dormers. The stack on the left is partly made of old thin bricks set on a stone base. The rear of the cottage is obscured by a 20th-century outshut. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Merry 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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