Woolstone Lodge and Adjoining 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. 2 related planning applications.
Woolstone Lodge and Adjoining Cottage
- WRENN ID
- old-barrel-rook
- 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
- Woolstone Lodge and Adjoining Cottage, SN7 7QL
- OS grid reference
- SU 294 878
- Coordinates
- 51.5887, -1.57624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woolstone Lodge and the adjoining cottage is a house built in the 17th century, reconstructed and extended around 1839 by Captain Butler, a retired Royal Navy officer. The building has an L-plan layout with roughcast walls and a Welsh slate roof, featuring brick stacks. It stands two storeys tall.
The garden front has a three-window range with margin lights to the sashes, hood moulds, dentilled eaves, and gabled side wings with a central raised parapet. There are ridge stacks as well. The right side has a four-window range, with a near-centre door that features a six-panelled design and a reeded architrave. The first floor has sashes and lunettes, while the ground floor includes two sashes and two French windows with margin light sashes.
Inside, the hall has a lime ash floor that imitates stone flagging and retains an elliptical arch at the rear. There is an original fireplace and staircase with cast-iron balusters, along with original fireplaces in other rooms. The room on the front right features a Gothick style cast-iron fireplace and late 16th century oak panelling, which was removed from an unknown house in Wales around 1870. It also has a moulded and dentilled cornice, and the overmantle displays three painted scenes from the Labours of Hercules.
To the rear right of Captain Butler's work from around 1830 are two cottages dating from the late 17th to early 18th century, which have roughcast walling, slate roofing, and a brick ridge stack from around 1700. When Captain George Butler built Woolstone Lodge, he also planted a small park opposite the garden front with elms and beeches, diverted the mill stream, and constructed the Stag House and a building that housed the granary and stables attached to the house.
Local climate
Woolstone Lodge and Adjoining 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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