Birch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1987. Farmhouse.
Birch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pale-cloister-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Birch Cottage, Netherton Lane, Fyfield and Tubney
- OS grid reference
- SU 422 987
- Coordinates
- 51.68614, -1.39007
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birch Cottage is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed from uncoursed limestone rubble and features a gabled and half-hipped thatch roof with a brick ridge stack. The building has a three-unit plan and is two storeys high, with a three-window range. The windows have chamfered timber lintels and include three-light leaded casements. There is a blocked gable-entry to the left, a rear entry, and another leaded casement.
At the rear right, there is a mid-18th century one-storey service wing made of limestone rubble, topped with a gabled stone slate roof and featuring a three-light leaded casement. Inside, the cottage has chamfered and stopped beams, and a chamfered bressumer over an open fireplace with inglenook seats. The central room has a four-bay queen-post roof with a chamfered cyma-stopped beam and purlin. The service wing, which was once used as a brewhouse, contains two collar trusses and a brick segmental-arched fireplace.
Local climate
Birch Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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