Hope Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. House.

Hope Cottage

WRENN ID
upper-steel-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1985
Type
House
Address
Hope Cottage, Wheatley Road, Forest Hill with Shotover
OS grid reference
SP 586 078
Coordinates
51.76604, -1.15085
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hope Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble with timber lintels and features a thatched roof with a brick ridge stack. The building has a two-unit plan that has been extended to three units and consists of one storey plus attics. The front elevation has three windows and a door located to the left of centre, flanked by three-light casements, with two three-light dormers above. An added bay to the right includes a three-light casement and a horizontal sliding sash in the third dormer. The stack is positioned to the right of the earlier section, and the roof is half-hipped. There is a 20th-century tiled rear wing. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Hope Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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