Snail Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1988. House.
Snail Cottage
- WRENN ID
- moated-marble-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Snail Cottage, Wellsprings Lane, Brightwell-Cum-Sotwell
- OS grid reference
- SU 583 909
- Coordinates
- 51.6141, -1.15914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Snail Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with some 19th-century replacement of timber. It features a rubble stone plinth and irregular timber framing with painted brick infill, topped by a thatch roof. There is a 19th-century brick stack located to the right of the centre. The cottage is a single storey with an attic and has a two-window range. A plank door is positioned on the left return, with a three-light casement window to the left and a two-light casement window to the right. A swept dormer is located on the right side. The interior has not been inspected. There is also a late 19th-century single-storey addition to the right, made of painted brick and covered with a Welsh slate roof.
Local climate
Snail 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 2003
- No related consent applications matched
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