Pyke Barn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. House.
Pyke Barn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-lintel-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pyke Barn Cottage, 122, High Street, Chalgrove
- OS grid reference
- SU 638 966
- Coordinates
- 51.66526, -1.07787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pyke Barn Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, with possible earlier origins. It features a cruck frame and small timber framing with wattle and daub infill, topped by a gabled and half-hipped thatched roof. There is a brick stack on the left end. The cottage has a two-unit plan, is one storey high with an attic, and has a two-window range. A 20th-century porch is located to the right, and there are late 19th-century two-light casements. Inside, there is a chamfered and stopped beam on the left and winder stairs. The roof has two bays with an obscured cruck truss. According to deeds held by the owner, the house was built in 1631 for Ezra White. The low cost of construction (6 shillings and 4 pence) and the cruck framing suggest that it may have been a substantial rebuilding rather than a completely new house.
Local climate
Pyke Barn 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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