Sinodun Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1986. House.
Sinodun Cottage
- WRENN ID
- strange-quoin-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sinodun Cottage, High Street, Long Wittenham
- OS grid reference
- SU 549 940
- Coordinates
- 51.6424, -1.2071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sinodun Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The building features large timber framing with painted brick infill and a thatched roof, along with a brick stack on the right side. It is two stories high and has a three-window range that runs at right angles to the street. The front entrance consists of a 20th-century plank door located in the center. The windows are irregularly placed and consist of 20th-century casements. At the rear, there is also timber framing with irregularly arranged casement windows. Inside, the cottage has a queen post roof supported by wind braces. Additionally, there is a 20th-century extension on the left side of the building.
Local climate
Sinodun 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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