Bull Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. House. 5 related planning applications.
Bull Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-lintel-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bull Cottage, 59, High Street, Dorchester, OX10 7HN
- OS grid reference
- SU 577 943
- Coordinates
- 51.64526, -1.16682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bull Cottage is probably a 16th or 17th century house, later remodelled in the 18th century, and originally part of an inn. The walls are rendered with some exposed timber framing and brick infill, and have colourwashed rubble detailing. The roof is of old plain tiles, with brick stacks. The house has a two-unit plan, extended to the end and rear. The two-storey front has two 3-light casement windows on each floor, dating from the 20th century. A single-story rubble extension to the right has a similar window with panelled shutters. Light timber framing is visible on the right end wall and rear. The roof is hipped on the right side, with stacks on either flank. Internally, fragments of earlier timber framing and some heavy beams remain. It was formerly connected to number 57, to the left, as the Bull Inn, and may have originally had a gallery at the rear.
Local climate
Bull 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 — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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