Cleeve Cottage and Attached Cob Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. House. 1 related planning application.
Cleeve Cottage and Attached Cob Wall
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-granite-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cleeve Cottage and Attached Cob Wall, Chapel Lane, Blewbury, OX11 9PQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 530 857
- Coordinates
- 51.56787, -1.23531
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cleeve Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with a likely early 17th-century two-bay addition on the right side. The building features large timber-framing with rendered infill, including arched braces at the center of the first floor. The right side has small timber-framing with painted brick and rendered infill. The roof is hipped and thatched, with a brick ridge stack located at the center. The original layout was probably that of a hall house.
The cottage is two stories high and has a five-bay, four-window range. There is a 20th-century stable door to the left of the center, and the windows are irregularly placed casements with leaded lights, except for a 17th-century wood oriel window located at the center of the first floor. To the left is a 18th-century cross-wing, which has timber-framing with painted infill and an old plain-tile roof, along with a brick ridge stack. This cross-wing is a single story with an attic and consists of a single-bay range.
The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest. Additionally, there is an attached 18th-century cob wall at the rear right, which forms a boundary to the garden. This wall is approximately 55 meters long and 2 meters high, featuring thatch coping.
Local climate
Cleeve Cottage and Attached Cob Wall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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