Hope Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Hope Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-ledge-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hope Cottage, 2, Manor Road, Towersey, OX9 3QR
- OS grid reference
- SP 736 052
- Coordinates
- 51.74115, -0.93483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hope Cottage is a house likely dating from the mid-17th century, with a refronting in the 18th century. It is constructed of painted uncoursed stone rubble to the ground floor, with brick dressings; the first floor is painted brick. The roof is thatched and half-hipped, with a brick ridge stack in the centre. The house is two storeys high and has a three-window front. A sash door is located on the left-hand side, sheltered by an open timber-framed porch with a gabled roof. There are 20th-century three-light casement windows in segmental-headed openings to the left and right of the centre, and a single pane window between the ground and first floors, centrally located. 19th-century two-light casement windows are found on the first floor to the left and right of centre. Inside, there is a winder staircase in the centre leading from the ground to the first floor, and a queen-post roof. A fireplace remains open on the ground floor to the right, while a fireplace on the ground floor to the left has been blocked.
Local climate
Hope 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 2 transactions since 1997
- 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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