The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1974. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage
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- 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
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, 49, Friday Street, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 1AN
- OS grid reference
- SU 762 825
- Coordinates
- 51.53658, -0.90194
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th century cottage constructed of red brick with a low-pitched slate roof and wide eaves. It is a two-storey building with two windows. The windows are reproduction 3-light casements with glazing bars, intended to resemble those of the early 19th century. A modern door is centrally placed. The building is listed at Grade II for group value, forming part of a wider group that includes numbers 5 to 35 (odd), and 45 to 65 (odd) Old Timbers and Friday Cottage and number 73, together with numbers 4 and 6, number 10, numbers 14, 14A and 16, numbers 54 and 56, The Anchor Hotel, and Baltic Cottage and Baltic House Thameside on the opposite side of the street.
Local climate
The 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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