The White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- unlit-chapel-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The White Cottage, Letcombe Regis, OX12 9JP
- OS grid reference
- SU 380 864
- Coordinates
- 51.57605, -1.4518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Cottage is a 17th-century cottage, largely encased in 18th-century fabric. It has painted brick walls and a thatched, hipped roof with brick ridge stacks on the left and right. The cottage is single-storey with an attic, and has a three-window front. There is a plank door to the left, and another plank door with a segmental brick arch to the right of centre. There are two-light wooden casements with segmental brick arches to the left of centre and to the centre, and a three-light wooden casement with leaded lights and a segmental brick arch to the right. Two swept dormers are visible; the one to the left has a three-light casement with leaded lights, and the one to the right has a two-light casement with leaded lights. The interior has not been inspected. The group value of the cottage lies in its representation of a vernacular building type and its historic significance.
Local climate
The White Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- 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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