Cripps and Shone Solicitors Nightingale Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. House, office, surgery.

Cripps and Shone Solicitors Nightingale Cottage

WRENN ID
quartered-wicket-elm
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, office, surgery
Address
Cripps and Shone Solicitors Nightingale Cottage, 35, Couching Street, Watlington
OS grid reference
SU 689 944
Coordinates
51.6446, -1.00511
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nightingale Cottage, now an office and surgery, is a house dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century. It features square timber framing that jetties over a rendered ground floor on the left side (No.35), while the right side (No.37) has a late 18th-century front made of Flemish bond brick. The building has a gabled roof covered with old tiles and a brick ridge stack. It has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys tall with a two-window range. The upper floor has horizontal sliding sash windows above an early 19th-century six-panelled stable door and a canted bay with sashes on the left. To the right, there is a segmental arch over a mid-19th-century sash window above a 20th-century door and window. Inside, No.37 on the right features a timber-framed partition and the lower face of a collar-truss to the left. No.35 includes a chamfered beam, a bressumer over an open fireplace, large curved arch-braces on the first floor, and a queen-post roof.

Local climate

Cripps and Shone Solicitors Nightingale 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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