The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- small-roof-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Kingston Lisle
- OS grid reference
- SU 320 880
- Coordinates
- 51.59078, -1.53882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house that was originally a cottage, dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It features an irregular timber frame made of small scantling with diagonal braces and brick infill. The walls are made of chalk, which has been whitewashed on the left bay and the right gable. The building has a thatched roof with brick stacks. It is 1 and a half stories tall and has a range of five windows, which are 20th-century casements, along with a door. The roof is gabled with stacks at both ends and along the ridge. Inside, the beams are disfigured and the roof trusses are obscured. There is a 20th-century weatherboarded single-storey extension on the left side and a mid-19th century brick lean-to with a plank door at the rear right.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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