Croft Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Cottage.
Croft Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-wicket-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Croft Cottage, 27 and 29, Blenheim Road, Horspath
- OS grid reference
- SP 572 052
- Coordinates
- 51.74281, -1.1719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Croft Cottage is a row of cottages dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. The construction features limestone rubble and timber lintels, topped with a thatched roof and brick stacks. The row consists of a single unit cottage alongside two-unit plan cottages, all one storey with attics.
No. 27, located on the left, has a small two-light casement window and two small two-light dormers, with the entrance situated in the gable wall. No. 29, which has been converted into three units, features a door to the right of the center between large 20th-century casement windows, with an additional casement window to the left. The left dormer has been enlarged, but two original two-light dormers remain. The roof of the row includes gable stacks and a ridge stack set on a stone base. There is also a single-storey 20th-century front extension at the extreme left of No. 29 and on the right gable wall. Inside No. 29, there is a large fireplace next to the gable entry.
Local climate
Croft 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 80% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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