Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Oak Cottage
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oak Cottage, 6, Court Close Road, Towersey, OX9 3QW
- OS grid reference
- SP 735 054
- Coordinates
- 51.74255, -0.93649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a house dating from the mid-17th century. It features painted uncoursed stone rubble on the left side, with an uncoursed stone rubble plinth in the center and right. The central and right sections are constructed with large timber framing and rendered infill. The roof is thatched, and there is a brick ridge stack located in the center. The house is a single storey with an attic and has a three-window range. There are plank doors on the left and in the center, with irregularly placed 19th-century casement windows. Additionally, there are two swept dormers. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Oak 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- 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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