Ely Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1974. Cottage.
Ely Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waning-paling-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ely Cottage, Wharfe Lane, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 2LL
- OS grid reference
- SU 762 828
- Coordinates
- 51.53922, -0.90137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ely Cottage is a late 18th century to early 19th century building located on the west side of Wharf Lane. It features painted brick facades and an old tiled roof. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows; the southern windows are early 19th century casements with glazing bars, while the northern windows are late 19th century to early 20th century reproduction leaded casements, with the upper window having a bracketed ledge. There are two doors, and the northern half of the building is a later addition. Ely Cottage is part of a group with Nos 25 to 29 (odd) Thameside and No 88 New Street, as well as part of a second group with all the listed buildings on Wharf Lane.
Local climate
Ely 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2026
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