Elsdale Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. Cottage.
Elsdale Cottage
- WRENN ID
- kindled-arch-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Elsdale Cottage, Lower Road, Lewknor
- OS grid reference
- SU 709 998
- Coordinates
- 51.69307, -0.97528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elsdale Cottage is a house that was originally two cottages, dating from the 16th century on the left side and the late 18th century on the right. The building features rectangular heavy timber framing with colourwashed brick infill, partly clad with 20th-century weatherboarding on the left and colourwashed chalk rubble on the right, which includes brick quoins and dressings. The roof is hipped and half-hipped thatch with a brick ridge stack on the left, while the right side has a concrete tile roof with a brick end stack. The house has a 4-unit plan and is one storey with an attic.
The left side has a two-window range with 20th-century casements and a three-light leaded half-dormer casement. The right side also has a two-window range featuring segmental brick arches over a 20th-century door, a blocked door, and a late 19th-century three-light iron casement, along with 20th-century half-dormer casements. Inside, there are deep-chamfered and stopped beams, and the left side has a three-bay roof with heavy scantling and curved principals.
Local climate
Elsdale 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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