Prior's Wood Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. House.
Prior's Wood Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-tracery-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Prior's Wood Cottage, Swyncombe
- OS grid reference
- SU 694 887
- Coordinates
- 51.59327, -0.99938
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Prior's Wood Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It is constructed of flint rubble with brick quoins and features a gabled and half-hipped roof covered with old tiles. The original end stack is made of brick. The cottage has a two-unit plan and is one storey with an attic, presenting a two-window range. There are brick soldier arches above a 20th-century door and casements, along with a 20th-century porch and raking dormers. To the right, there is a brick one-bay extension that shares the same roof. Inside, the cottage includes chamfered beams and joists, a chamfered bressumer over an open fireplace, quarter-turn stairs, and a queen-post roof with clasped purlins.
Local climate
Prior's Wood Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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