Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1988. Cottage.

Walnut Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
veiled-dormer-hawk
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
Cottage
Address
Walnut Tree Cottage, Barrow Lane, Harwell
OS grid reference
SU 494 896
Coordinates
51.60392, -1.28793
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the late 17th century and has undergone some alterations since then. It features large timber framing with passing braces and a clunch rubble base for the stack located to the right of the center. The roof is thatch-hipped, and there is a brick ridge stack also positioned to the right of the center. The cottage is a single storey with an attic and has a two-window range. A 20th-century door is located to the right, and the windows display irregular fenestration with casements. There is a swept dormer in the center. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Walnut Tree 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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