The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- moated-baluster-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Townsend Road, Shrivenham
- OS grid reference
- SU 236 887
- Coordinates
- 51.59674, -1.66014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th-century building constructed of limewashed rubble stone and brick, featuring a gabled thatched roof and end brick stacks. The original part of the cottage, which is set at right angles to the road, is a single storey with an attic and consists of two bays. It has been extended by one additional brick bay. The ground floor has 20th-century casement windows with cambered heads, while the attic features three light 12 leaded pane casements in the original range. The brick extension has a similar upper casement, although only one light remains intact, and the ground floor window is also from the 20th century. There are two 20th-century plank doors: one leads to a glazed porch on the original range, and the other to a tile-hung open porch on the extension.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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