Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1985. A Georgian Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-zinc-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Keepers Cottage, Mapledurham, RG4 7UA
- OS grid reference
- SU 683 776
- Coordinates
- 51.49341, -1.01745
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keepers Cottage is an 18th-century cottage constructed from painted flint with brick dressings and a plain tile roof. It features a central brick ridge stack and has a lobby entry plan. The building is a single storey with an attic and has a two-window range. There is a plank door in the center, flanked by two-light casements on either side. The roof has two gabled dormers, with the left side hipped and the right side half-hipped. The interior has not been inspected. There is also a weatherboarded lean-to addition on the right return.
Local climate
Keepers 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 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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