May Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1979. House. 3 related planning applications.
May Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-tallow-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- May Tree Cottage, 18, High Street, Long Wittenham, OX14 4QQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 544 936
- Coordinates
- 51.6392, -1.21388
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
May Tree Cottage is a house located on Long Wittenham High Street, dating back to the 15th century with a late 17th-century encasement. The structure features cruck framing and large timber framing with rendered infill, topped by a thatched roof and a brick end stack on the left side. It is a single-storey building with an attic and has a two-window range. The central entrance is a plank door, which is sheltered by a 20th-century gabled porch. On either side of the door, there are two-light wood casement windows. The cottage also has two swept dormers. The rear showcases large timber framing with brick infill, and inside, there are two full cruck trusses with arch-braced collars. A chamfered spine beam is present at the centre of the ground floor, accompanied by chamfered joists.
Local climate
May Tree 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 — 3 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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