Coombe End Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1985. House. 1 related planning application.

Coombe End Cottages

WRENN ID
watchful-shingle-harvest
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
House
Address
Coombe End Cottages, Goring Heath, RG8 7PD
OS grid reference
SU 634 793
Coordinates
51.50951, -1.08777
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Coombe End Cottages is a house from the early 18th century. It is constructed of grey brick with red brick dressings and has a plain tile roof with brick stacks. The building is two storeys high and features a two-window range. A central plank door is set beneath an open timber frame porch that has a gabled plain tile roof. On either side of the door are two-light casements with segmental brick heads. There is a flat brick band between the ground and first floor, and two-light casements are also present on the first floor to the left and right. The eaves are adorned with a dentil cornice, and the roof is hipped to the left, with a stack on the left and a ridge stack on the right.

Adjacent to this cottage is a 19th-century house built in a similar style, also made of grey brick with red brick dressings and a plain tile roof. This house is two storeys tall and has a three-window range, featuring a plank door to the left and two-light casements in all openings. Its roof is hipped to the right, with a stack located on the right side.

Local climate

Coombe End Cottages 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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