Island Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Island Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ragged-finial-reed
- 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
- Island Cottage, the Forty, Cholsey, OX10 9LH
- OS grid reference
- SU 587 866
- Coordinates
- 51.57563, -1.15396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Island Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century, with a front that was added in the late 18th century. The building is roughcast, likely over brick, and features a Welsh slate roof with a brick ridge stack located to the right of the center. It is two stories high and has a two-window range. There is a glazed door to the left of the center, and flat-roofed angled bays with sash windows on both sides. The first floor has 20-pane unhorned sashes. At the rear, there is large timber framing. The interior has not been inspected. There is probably an early 19th-century extension to the right, constructed of red brick with grey headers in Flemish bond and also featuring a Welsh slate roof. This extension is two stories high with a two-window range, a 4-panel part-glazed door with a flat hood to the left, and 16-pane sashes on both the ground and first floors to the right, along with a 12-pane sash on the first floor to the left. A dentil course is present at the eaves.
Local climate
Island 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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