Number 3 Old Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1977. Cottage.
Number 3 Old Cottages
- WRENN ID
- silver-rotunda-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Number 3 Old Cottages, Checkendon
- OS grid reference
- SU 663 829
- Coordinates
- 51.54192, -1.0441
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 3 Old Cottages is a 17th-century cottage that features 19th-century windows. The building has a timber frame with brick infill and a plain old tile roof, topped with a brick ridge stack. It is one storey high with an attic. To the right, there is a plank door, while to the left, there are two irregular windows. A gabled dormer is located on the right side of the attic.
Local climate
Number 3 Old Cottages 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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