Mesopotamia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1981. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Mesopotamia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-courtyard-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mesopotamia Cottage, Watery Lane, Clifton Hampden, OX14 3EJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 547 957
- Coordinates
- 51.65811, -1.21044
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mesopotamia Cottage is a 17th-century house located on Watery Lane in Clifton Hampden. It features large timber framing with rendered infill, and there has been 20th-century brick rebuilding on the right side. The cottage has a hipped thatch roof with a brick ridge stack positioned to the right of the center. It is a single-storey building with an attic and has a four-window range that runs at right angles to the lane. There is a plank door situated to the right of the center, and the windows have irregular fenestration with leaded casements. Additionally, there are two swept dormers with a plain-tile apron from the mid-20th century in the center. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Mesopotamia 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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 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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