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

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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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