Cruck Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1963. House. 4 related planning applications.
Cruck Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-paling-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cruck Cottage, High Street, Long Wittenham, OX14 4QQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 544 937
- Coordinates
- 51.63952, -1.21398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cruck Cottage is a house dating from the 14th century, with a 16th-century cross-wing. It features cruck framing, a limestone rubble base, and large timber-framing. The left side has rendered infill, while the centre and the left and right returns of the cross-wing have brick infill. The roof is thatched with an old plain-tile valley, and there is a brick central ridge stack, along with a lateral stack on the left return of the cross-wing.
The building is single-storey with a three-window range on the left and a two-storey cross-wing on the right. A 20th-century porch has been added to the rear. The windows show irregular fenestration, consisting of casements and sashes. The roof is half-hipped on the left side and has a cross-gable on the cross-wing. The 14th-century portion has three full crucks, while the cross-wing features jointed crucks with curved wind-braces. Some rooms in the 16th-century cross-wing have original doors from that period.
Local climate
Cruck 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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