The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-joist-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Townsend, Harwell, OX11 0DX
- OS grid reference
- SU 493 895
- Coordinates
- 51.603, -1.28838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, located in Harwell Townsend. It is likely built on a timber-frame structure with a rendered ground floor, and the first floor has exposed large timber-framing with painted brick infill. The roof is covered in old plain tiles, and there is a brick ridge stack positioned to the right of the centre. The house is two storeys high and has a two-window range, set at an angle to the street. A 20th-century door is centrally positioned, and the windows are 20th-century casements, mostly of two lights. Large timber framing is visible at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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