Cressbed Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Cressbed Cottage
- WRENN ID
- haunted-beam-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cressbed Cottage, Stow Hill, Childrey, OX12 9XQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 363 874
- Coordinates
- 51.5846, -1.4772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cressbed Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house, dating from the mid to late 17th century. It features a timber frame constructed with square framing and diagonal braces, with brick infill. The cottage has a thatched roof and brick stacks. The plan form is a lobby-entry, although this is not clearly deducible. It is 1 and a half stories tall and has a five-window range. The cottage includes a 20th-century porch and casement windows, and it has a half-hipped roof with two ridge stacks.
Local climate
Cressbed Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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