Cob Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. Farmhouse.
Cob Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tall-crypt-crimson
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cob Cottage, Woolstone Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 293 878
- Coordinates
- 51.58871, -1.57727
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cob Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house, dating from the late 17th century. The building features irregular timber framing that is partly rendered, with small scantling arranged into large squares, and includes brick infill. A timber-framed bay was added to the right around 1700. The cottage has a thatched roof and brick stacks, forming an L-plan structure. It is one and a half stories high with a four-window range. The front door, which is studded, dates from the 18th century, while the windows are 20th-century casements. There are ridge and gable-end stacks, and the rear wing has a two-window range with a gable-end stack and a half-hipped roof.
Inside, the rear room features a full range of chamfered and stopped beams, a stone flag floor, and an original open fireplace. The original fireplace is served by the same stack. A quarter-turn and straight-flight staircase, likely from the 19th century, is located in its original position at the junction of the two wings. There is also a 20th-century lean-to at the angle of the wings and an extension with a hipped roof to the right.
Local climate
Cob 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
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