Northfield Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1963. House. 1 related planning application.
Northfield Cottage
- WRENN ID
- standing-tallow-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- Northfield Cottage, High Street, Long Wittenham, OX14 4QJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 549 939
- Coordinates
- 51.64195, -1.20787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Northfield Cottage is a 17th-century house located on the south side of Long Wittenham High Street. The building features a limestone rubble base with large timber framing, brick infill in the center, and rendered infill on the left and right sides. It has a thatched roof that is hipped to the right, with an area of old plain tiles in the center. A brick ridge stack is situated on the right, and there is a brick lateral stack with a stone base at the front center. The cottage is a single storey with an attic and has a three-window range. There is a plank door leading to a lean-to porch on the right return. The windows exhibit irregular fenestration with 2-light casements, and there are raking dormers to the left and left of center, along with a swept dormer on the right. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Northfield 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 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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