May Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.

May Cottage

WRENN ID
winter-span-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 January 1986
Type
House
Address
May Cottage, Buckland, SN7 8QS
OS grid reference
SU 345 980
Coordinates
51.68023, -1.50182
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

May Cottage is an early 18th-century house located in Buckland. The construction utilizes coursed limestone rubble with brick quoins and brick surrounds to the openings. It is topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building originally comprised two units, now presenting a three-window facade. A 20th-century timber lintel and brick jambs frame the front door, which is accessed via a circa 1975 gabled porch. The windows are eight-pane sashes with timber lintels and brick jambs, and there are two gabled roof dormers with two-light leaded casements. The roof is gabled, with gable end stacks; the stack on the right side was remodelled in the mid-20th century. A single-storey, gabled dairy block from the early 18th century is attached to the left of the front facade. Internally, the cottage features mid-19th-century four-panelled doors, panelled shutters and a plain stone fireplace in the room to the left. A two-storey, half-hipped block, with lean-to extensions to the rear constructed in matching materials, completes the property.

Local climate

May Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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