Church Rooms Rectory Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1952. House, school.

Church Rooms Rectory Cottages

WRENN ID
sheer-solder-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 April 1952
Type
House, school
Address
Church Rooms Rectory Cottages, Lydalls Road, Didcot
OS grid reference
SU 519 904
Coordinates
51.61022, -1.25084
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building known as Rectory Cottages and Church Rooms, now divided into two dwellings and a house that was formerly a school, dates from the mid-17th century. It features a rendered plinth, large timber framing, rendered infill, and a thatched roof with brick ridge stacks located to the left and right of the center. The structure is two stories high and has a three-window range that is positioned at right angles to the street.

To the left of center, there is a six-panel door topped by a 19th-century gabled hood with an old plain-tile roof. On the ground floor, there are two-light wood casements to the left and right of the center, and a three-light wood casement to the right. The first floor has two-light leaded wood casements to the left and right, and a three-light leaded wood casement in the center. The interior has not been inspected.

At the rear, there is a mid-19th century school room, which is likely the first recorded work of Charles Buckeridge. This section has a brick base, false timber framing with rendered infill, and a plain-tile roof topped with a pyramidal-roof bell-cote.

Local climate

Church Rooms Rectory Cottages 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 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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