Apple Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. A C15 House. 2 related planning applications.
Apple Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- strange-stronghold-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Apple Tree Cottage, 46, Grays Close, Chalgrove, OX44 7SR
- OS grid reference
- SU 632 971
- Coordinates
- 51.66976, -1.08649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Apple Tree Cottage is a house dating from the 15th or 16th century, which was re-faced in the late 18th or 19th century. It features cruck framing and is re-faced with colourwashed limestone rubble, complemented by brick quoins and dressings. The house has a gabled roof covered with old tiles at the front and 20th-century tiles at the rear. There is a 16th-century brick ridge stack and a later end stack, both finished in 19th-century brick. The layout is a three-unit plan, with one storey and an attic, and it has a three-window range.
The front has a central 20th-century door with a 20th-century porch, a blocked door to the right, a glazed door to the left, and a 20th-century casement window in the right outer bay, along with 20th-century roof dormers. Inside, there are two pairs of raised crucks with collars and chamfered through purlins. The room to the right contains a full set of chamfered and stopped beams and joists. This house appears to be a two-storey dwelling, which is unusual for cruck-built houses in the area that typically feature open halls.
Local climate
Apple Tree 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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