Eastwood and Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. A Medieval Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Eastwood and Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- low-pediment-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Eastwood and Rose Cottage, Chapel Road, Ashbury, SN6 8LS
- OS grid reference
- SU 263 851
- Coordinates
- 51.56441, -1.62063
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rose Cottage is a 15th-century hall house, later remodelled in the mid to late 16th century, and now used as a house. It is located on Ashbury Chapel Road. The construction is of squared chalk laid over a sarsen base, with a thatched roof and a brick stack. Originally a 4-bay hall house, the insertion of a first floor and chimney stack onto the screens passage around the mid to late 16th century created a 3-unit cross-passage plan, with a 4-window range. There are brick segmental arches over a 20th-century door and casements. The roof is half-hipped. Internally, a mid-16th-century panelled parlour contains chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and joists. The kitchen fireplace, backing onto the cross passage, has a mid-16th-century moulded bressumer and fire beam. The house features 4-bay, raised cruck trusses with plated yoke.
Eastwood, located behind Rose Cottage, dates from the late 16th to early 17th century, with construction of squared chalk over a sarsen and brick base, and a thatched roof and brick stacks. It is a 3-unit plan building that was converted into two cottages in the 18th century, and has a 1 1/2-storey, 4-window range. There are 20th-century casements, one blocked door, and mid to late 18th-century five-light leaded casements to the first floor. The property features an early 19th-century four-panelled door (2 glazed) and a half-hipped roof with a gable stack and a stack adjoining Rose Cottage. Inside, there is a chamfered beam with a scrolled stop, and a 3-bay collar-truss roof with butt purlins. Historical records indicate that in approximately 1777, Thomas Stock was given this cottage by the Craven Estate for use as a Sunday school, purportedly the first in England.
Local climate
Eastwood and Rose Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 9 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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