Ruskin Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1972. House.
Ruskin Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-joist-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ruskin Cottage, 12, Botley and North Hinksey
- OS grid reference
- SP 496 053
- Coordinates
- 51.74476, -1.28246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ruskin Cottage is a 17th-century house located in North Hinksey Village. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and features a gabled thatch roof. The right end has a stone stack finished in brick, and there is a similar rear lateral stack made from 18th-century brick. The house has a two-unit plan, is one storey high with an attic, and has a two-window range. The front includes a 20th-century plank door with timber lintels, flanked by a 19th-century window on the left and a 20th-century three-light casement window. There are also similar 20th-century dormer casement windows. A 20th-century extension has been added to the rear. Although the interior has not been inspected, it is likely to be of interest. In 1874, John Ruskin mentioned this cottage while encouraging undergraduates to improve the road through the village, promoting the value of physical work, as noted on a plaque on the wall.
Local climate
Ruskin 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 78% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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