Elm Cottage and Wall Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. Cottages.

Elm Cottage and Wall Cottage

WRENN ID
veiled-foundation-indigo
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
Cottages
Address
Elm Cottage and Wall Cottage, Church Lane, Woolstone
OS grid reference
SU 294 877
Coordinates
51.58756, -1.57677
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Elm Cottage and Wall Cottage are two cottages located on Woolstone Church Lane. Elm Cottage dates from the 17th century, while Wall Cottage was built in the late 18th century. The cottages are constructed from squared chalk brought to course, with chalk quoins, a sarsen base, and brick buttresses on Wall Cottage. They feature thatched roofs and brick stacks. Elm Cottage has a two-unit plan, while Wall Cottage has a one-unit plan. Both cottages are one and a half storeys high and have a three-window range. Timber lintels are present over 20th-century casements and doors. Under the eaves of Elm Cottage, there are chalk blocks cut and shaped to create circular and lozenge patterns with sarsen infill. The roof has a single ridge stack and a 19th-century lateral stack at the rear of Elm Cottage, which has a half-hipped roof. Inside Elm Cottage, there is a chamfered bressumer over the fireplace, a chamfered and stopped beam in the left-hand room, a timber-framed partition, and a two-bay closed collar-truss with central access. There is also an extension at the rear of Elm Cottage made of artificial stone and concrete tiles.

Local climate

Elm Cottage and Wall 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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