The Old Vicarage Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. A C17 House.
The Old Vicarage Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-chimney-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Vicarage Cottage, West Hendred
- OS grid reference
- SU 448 882
- Coordinates
- 51.5913, -1.35459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage Cottage is a 17th-century house located in West Hendred. It features a 20th-century brick plinth and irregular large timber framing with painted brick infill on the ground floor, while the upper part is rendered. The cottage has a thatched roof that is half-hipped on the left side and hipped on the right side, with a brick ridge stack at the center and an end stack on the right. It has a two-unit lobby-entry plan and is a single storey with an attic, presenting a two-window range. The entrance is a plank door located at the center, flanked by three-light casements with leaded lights on the ground floor. There are also two eyebrow dormers, each with three-light casements. The interior has not been inspected. To the right, there is a weather-boarded addition under a thatched roof.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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