Well 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.
Well Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-passage-bracken
- 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
- Well Cottage, Rectory Lane, Longworth
- OS grid reference
- SU 387 991
- Coordinates
- 51.68996, -1.44035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well Cottage is a house dated 1777, as inscribed on a beam, with a mid-20th century extension of two bays to the right of the door. The exterior is roughcast with an old tile roof and a brick stack. The house has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high, featuring a five-window range. The door, inserted in the 20th century, is located to the right of a blocked entry that was originally between the first and second windows from the left. The windows are primarily 18th-century two-light leaded casements, except for a one-light window to the left and 20th-century two-light casements to the right of the door and in the half-dormer above. The roof is gabled, with the ridge previously housing the right end stack of the 18th-century house. Inside, there is a full set of chamfered joists and a beam dated 1777 in the left room.
Local climate
Well Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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