Ward Cottage (Adjoining Old Post Office) is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Cottage.
Ward Cottage (Adjoining Old Post Office)
- WRENN ID
- eastward-roof-woodpecker
- 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
- OS grid reference
- SP 650 047
- Coordinates
- 51.73785, -1.05903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ward Cottage, which adjoins the Old Post Office, is a cottage dating from the early 17th century. It features timber framing with daub and brick infill, and has a plain-tile roof. The building is a single unit, consisting of one storey plus an attic. The entrance is located in the gable wall beside an inserted brick stack. The front and side have a rubble plinth with daub infill, while the rear has brick infill. Inside, there is a quarter-turn stair and a clasped purlin roof. The roof is continuous with that of the Old Post Office to the right, which may have been an extension of Ward Cottage. The cottage is part of an L-shaped group that includes the Old Post Office and Coney Cottage.
Local climate
Ward Cottage (Adjoining Old Post Office) 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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