Dairy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
Dairy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-facade-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dairy Cottage, Nuneham Courtenay, OX44 9PQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 542 982
- Coordinates
- 51.6802, -1.21699
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dairy Cottage is a late 18th and early 19th century house. It is constructed of whitewashed brick with a slate roof, featuring brick stacks and a central ridge louvre associated with the original dairy function. The building comprises a single-storey dairy, now integrated into a house, with two-storey brick extensions. A hexagonal model dairy, with a part-glazed two-leaved door within a shallow porch supported by narrow piers, is a prominent feature. Flanking the porch are round-headed two-light casements with glazing bars and transoms. Wide projecting eaves are present. Lean-tos and further extensions with sash windows are located to the sides and rear, with a rear entrance. The original dairy interior retains its slate dairy furniture, including a central table that is now protected by a wooden cover. The dairy is believed to be contemporary with the alterations to Nuneham House around 1800 and further extensions built in the early to mid-19th century.
Local climate
Dairy 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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 2017
- 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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