White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-pier-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- White Cottage, 42, Chapel Street, Watlington, OX49 5QT
- OS grid reference
- SU 687 946
- Coordinates
- 51.64682, -1.0072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage is a building that originally comprised two cottages and has now been converted into a house. The structure consists of two ranges, dating from the 15th to early 16th century, which were remodeled in the 17th century and late 18th century on the right side, while the left side is from the mid-18th century. The left range features English bond brick on a flint base, while the right range is cruck-framed, clad in flint rubble, and has late 18th-century brick quoins and vertical strips. The building has a gabled roof, thatched on the left and covered with old tiles on the right, along with a 19th-century brick stack at the left end and a 17th-century brick ridge stack.
The left side has a two-window range with segmental arches over 20th-century ground-floor casements and 20th-century half-dormer casements, along with a leaded fire-window to the right. The right side has a one-window range with a flat brick arch over a 20th-century two-light casement and a two-light leaded dormer casement. There is a 20th-century door at the rear.
Inside, the left side features ogee-stopped beams, and there are quarter-turn stairs next to the stack. The right range has a three-bay raised cruck roof with curved windbraces and smoke blackening, along with a chamfered beam from the inserted floor.
Local climate
White 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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 — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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