Blacksmith's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Blacksmith's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pale-newel-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blacksmith's Cottage, 118, High Street, Chalgrove, OX44 7ST
- OS grid reference
- SU 638 967
- Coordinates
- 51.66551, -1.07808
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blacksmith's Cottage is a 17th-century house located on the south side of High Street in Chalgrove. The building is rendered and features a gabled thatched roof with a brick ridge stack. It has a three-unit plan and consists of one storey and an attic, with a three-window range. The front includes a 20th-century door and casement windows. Inside, there is a chamfered beam and a chamfered bressumer above the open fireplace. The first floor retains original roof timbers.
Local climate
Blacksmith's 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- 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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