Holywell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1988. House.
Holywell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hollow-frieze-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Holywell Cottage, Wellshead Lane, Harwell
- OS grid reference
- SU 491 889
- Coordinates
- 51.59683, -1.2913
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holywell Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with a likely addition from the late 17th century on the left side. The building features roughcast, probably over timber-framing on the right, and roughcast, likely over brick, on the left. It has a 20th-century plain-tile roof with varying heights and pitches, and a half-hipped design on the right side. There is a brick ridge stack where the addition meets the original structure. The cottage is single-storey-and-attic with a two-bay range on the right and a two-storey, two-bay range on the left. A 20th-century sash door is located to the right of the center, and the windows display irregular fenestration with 19th-century casements. A cross-gable is positioned to the right of the center, featuring a three-light casement. The right return shows a truncated base-cruck truss. The interior has not been inspected but is noted to contain two cruck trusses.
Local climate
Holywell Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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