Howes Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
Howes Cottage
- WRENN ID
- moated-hearth-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Howes Cottage, 6, Chapel Lane, Sutton Courtenay, OX14 4AN
- OS grid reference
- SU 500 939
- Coordinates
- 51.64204, -1.27769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Howes Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century. The ground floor is made of painted brick, while the first floor features roughcast with some irregular timber-framing on the right side. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has a 20th-century rebuilt brick chimney located to the left of the center. The building is two stories tall with an attic and has a four-window range. The ground floor has two-light casements, except for a three-light casement on the left, while the first floor has two-light casements, except for another three-light casement on the left. There is a cross-gable to the right of the center that includes a two-light casement. The first floor has rendered panels with stencil floral decoration on the left and left of center. A plank door leads to the cross-wing at the right rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Howes 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 79% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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