Little Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Cottage.
Little Garden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-portal-lake
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Garden Cottage, Drayton St. Leonard
- OS grid reference
- SU 600 963
- Coordinates
- 51.66237, -1.13345
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Garden Cottage is a 17th-century cottage featuring painted brick on the ground floor and large timber framing with rendered panels above. It has a thatched roof and a brick end stack on the left side. The cottage has a single cell plan, is single storey with an attic, and has a single-window range. There is a plank door with a 20th-century open porch to the left and a 2-light casement window to the right. The centre has a swept dormer with a 2-light casement.
There are single storey wings on both the left and right. The left wing has large timber framing with rendered infill and a hipped thatch roof, featuring a single-light casement window. The right wing consists of a single bay of weatherboarded timber framing with a hipped thatch roof. Inside, there is an open fireplace on the ground floor and a winder staircase leading from the ground floor to the attic. The roof structure features queen post construction with one windbrace visible.
Local climate
Little Garden 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 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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