Waterfall Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. House.
Waterfall Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tangled-pewter-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Waterfall Cottage, Woolstone
- OS grid reference
- SU 294 878
- Coordinates
- 51.5886, -1.5767
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Waterfall Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century. It features a timber-framed structure with small square framing and diagonal bracing, topped with a thatched roof and a brick stack. The building has a two-unit plan and is two storeys high, with a two-window range. The front includes a late 18th-century segmental head with a carved soffit above a six-panelled door, two of which are glazed. The windows are late 18th-century canted casements with segmental heads, each containing four leaded lights. The right side of the cottage has a half-hipped roof, while the left side features a brick end stack.
Inside, the cottage retains chamfered and stopped beams, and there is a late 18th-century moulded architrave around the fireplace. The staircase, which is a newel type, is located opposite the entry, and original floorboards are present throughout. The roof structure includes a two-bay queen-post truss with clasped purlins. On the right side, there is a late 18th-century lean-to made of brick, weatherboard, and tile, which has casement windows similar to those on the main building. Additionally, there is a 20th-century concrete block extension at the rear.
Local climate
Waterfall Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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