Holly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. House.
Holly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waning-screen-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Holly Cottage, the Forty, Cholsey, OX10 9LH
- OS grid reference
- SU 587 866
- Coordinates
- 51.5755, -1.15373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Cottage is an 18th-century house located in Cholsey. It is constructed of squared coursed limestone with red brick dressings and features an old plain-tile roof with brick end stacks. The building is a single storey with an attic and has a two-window range. The central entrance is a sash door that is sheltered by a 19th-century open gabled porch. On either side of the door, there are three-light wood casements with segmental brick heads. The cottage also includes two gabled dormers. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Holly Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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