Knights 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. 1 related planning application.
Knights Cottage
- WRENN ID
- south-grate-linden
- 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
- Knights Cottage, Summerside Road, Buckland, SN7 8QY
- OS grid reference
- SU 344 978
- Coordinates
- 51.67805, -1.50258
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knights Cottage is a 17th-century building originally constructed as two single-unit cottages, now functioning as a house. It features coursed limestone rubble and a thatched roof with brick stacks. The cottage is one storey with an attic and has a three-window range. There are timber lintels above a central 20th-century door and an adjoining blocked door, as well as over early 20th-century two-and three-light casements. The three half dormers contain early 20th-century two-light casements. The gabled roof has gable end stacks, and there is a timber lintel over an 18th-century two-light leaded casement in the left gable wall.
Attached to the front right corner is a single-storey service block made from similar materials, featuring a late 19th-century two-light window, a plank door, and a five-light leaded casement on the front wall. Inside, there are 19th-century plank doors. The left room has a full set of stop-chamfered beams and joists, along with an open fireplace that includes a 20th-century bressumer. The room to the right has a chamfered and stopped beam, a late 19th-century partition under the central beam, and late 19th-century quarter-turn stairs. The I-bay roof is obscured, but the original purlins remain.
Local climate
Knights 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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