Sarsen Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1988. House.
Sarsen Cottage
- WRENN ID
- south-tallow-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sarsen Cottage, Letcombe Regis
- OS grid reference
- SU 380 866
- Coordinates
- 51.57747, -1.45203
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sarsen Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century. It features stone rubble panels with brick dressings and has a thatched roof. There is a brick ridge stack located to the right of the center and an end stack on the left. The cottage has a 3-unit lobby-entry plan and is two stories high with a four-window range. A 19th-century plank door leads to a 19th-century brick porch, which has a gabled thatch roof and is positioned to the right of the center. All openings have 3-light casements with leaded lights, except for a blind panel above the porch. There is an illegible date stone on the right return gable end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Sarsen Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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