Ford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1985. Cottage.
Ford Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-gutter-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ford Cottage, High Street, Whitchurch-On-Thames
- OS grid reference
- SU 634 772
- Coordinates
- 51.49073, -1.08697
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ford Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on the west side of Whitchurch High Street. It features flint and brick dressings with a plain tile roof and a brick end stack on the right side. The building is single storey with an attic and has a two-window range. The central entrance consists of a plank door topped with a gabled hood supported by shaped brackets. There are two-light casement windows on either side of the door, and two gabled dormers above. The right-hand return gable displays timber framing with brick infill. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Ford 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 6 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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