Downs Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. A 17th century Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Downs Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-barrel-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- 17th century
- Address
- Downs Cottage, Fernham Road, Longcot, SN7 7TG
- OS grid reference
- SU 274 907
- Coordinates
- 51.61533, -1.60483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downs Cottage is a 17th-century cottage situated on Longcot Fernham Road. It is constructed of rubble stone, featuring a gabled pantiled roof and end brick stacks. The front of the house, facing southeast, is two stories high and has three bays, with three-light, two-pane wooden casement windows. The ground-floor casements are set within semi-circular relieving arches of ashlar stone. A 20th-century gabled stone-tiled porch is centrally placed, and beneath it is a 19th-century panelled door with three rectangular fanlights above. An ammonite is set in the apex of the porch. A two-story roughcast addition extends to the rear, also with a gabled pantiled roof, and is lit on the southwest side by eight-pane leaded casement windows.
Local climate
Downs 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 — 1 transaction since 2012
- 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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