Barn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1952. Stable, house. 1 related planning application.
Barn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- endless-parapet-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1952
- Type
- Stable, house
- Address
- Barn Cottage, Main Street, Little Wittenham, OX14 4RA
- OS grid reference
- SU 566 934
- Coordinates
- 51.63687, -1.18347
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barn Cottage is likely a mid-17th century stable building, later converted into a house, with alterations in the 20th century. The exterior is constructed from limestone rubble with a limestone plinth; the ground floor is of coursed squared limestone, while the first floor has rectangular timber framing with brick infill, some laid in a herringbone pattern. The roof is of old plain tiles, hipped in style, with a 20th-century brick stack located to the left of the centre. The cottage is two storeys high, with a seven-window range at a right angle to the street. A 20th-century ribbed door is in the centre, alongside a 20th-century casement window with a brick surround to the right. Six-pane windows are located on the first floor, except for a three-light wooden casement to the right of the centre. The left and right returns, and the rear, are of coursed squared limestone with 20th-century windows. A 20th-century straight flight of stairs is present. Internally, the roof is a queen-strut design.
Local climate
Barn 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- 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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