Bell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Bell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- errant-pilaster-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bell Cottage, Bell Lane, Brightwell-Cum-Sotwell, OX10 0QD
- OS grid reference
- SU 584 911
- Coordinates
- 51.61592, -1.15674
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bell Cottage is a late 17th-century house with an 19th-century addition to the right. It is constructed of painted, uncoursed limestone rubble with brick dressings, and has an old plain-tile roof that is hipped to the left and half-hipped to the right. A brick stack is located to the left of centre, with an internal stack to the right. The house follows a 2-unit lobby entry plan, with a single-unit addition. The facade is two storeys high and has a three-window range. A three-panel door is centrally positioned on the left. The windows are irregular 2-light casements. Internally, the house has 20th-century stairs. Open fireplaces are present on the ground floor to the left of centre. The left side of the house showcases chamfered spine beams with ogee end stops on both the ground and first floors. A blocked window, visible above the main doorway in a cupboard within the first-floor centre bedroom, indicates a previous arrangement.
Local climate
Bell Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 2002
- 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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