The Shepherd's 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.
The Shepherd's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-quartz-snow
- 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
- The Shepherd's Cottage, 2, Watery Lane, Sparsholt, OX12 9PP
- OS grid reference
- SU 348 879
- Coordinates
- 51.58975, -1.49884
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shepherd's Cottage is a 17th-century house located on Watery Lane in Sparsholt. It features timber framing with square framing and diagonal braces, topped by a thatched roof and brick stacks. The cottage has a three-unit plan and is one and a half stories tall, with a four-window range. The entrance includes a 20th-century door, while the windows consist of five 18th-century two-light leaded casements, one 18th-century one-light leaded casement, and three 20th-century casements. The roof is half-hipped and has two ridge stacks. The interior has not been inspected, and there is a 20th-century weatherboarded lean-to attached to the right gable wall.
Local climate
The Shepherd's 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- 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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