Number 27 (Queens Cottage) and Number 28 is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Number 27 (Queens Cottage) and Number 28
- WRENN ID
- pale-lantern-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Number 27 (Queens Cottage) and Number 28, Baldon Row, Toot Baldon, OX44 9NG
- OS grid reference
- SP 565 001
- Coordinates
- 51.69698, -1.18251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 27 (Queens Cottage) and Number 28 are two houses that date from the late 17th century to early 18th century. They are built of coursed limestone rubble with large squared quoins and wooden lintels, topped with a thatch roof featuring a brick ridge stack. The layout follows a two-unit lobby-entry plan with a rear outshut that has been subdivided. The buildings are two storeys tall and present a two-window front facing the garden.
The front has a blocked entrance situated between two casement windows; the left window was moved to make way for a 20th-century stone porch that now serves as the entrance, while the right window has been enlarged upwards but still retains its original three-light casement. The first floor features two unaltered three-light casements. The roof has stacks aligned with the blocked doorway. The gable walls display some stone banding, and the upper parts of the gables are made of brick. Both end walls have additional three-light casements, and to the right is the 20th-century stone porch for Number 28.
At the rear, there is a stone-walled outshut that has been further extended by a continuous weatherboarded outshut, all under a catslide roof with one dormer. Inside, the property features ogee chamfer stops on the beams and timber-framed partitions.
Local climate
Number 27 (Queens Cottage) and Number 28 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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