Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1986. House.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crooked-jade-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Cottage, Baulking
- OS grid reference
- SU 317 906
- Coordinates
- 51.61355, -1.5432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century. It features a timber frame with square and irregular framing, and brick infill. The thatched roof has a brick stack and a chalk block external stack on the right side. The house has a three-unit lobby entry plan and is one storey with an attic, presenting a three-window range. The front door is a 20th-century plank door. There are two mid to late 19th-century casements and two 3-light casements in the first-floor half dormers, while the other casements are from the 20th century. The roof is half-hipped, with a ridge and an external stack on the right.
Inside, there is a chamfered bressumer above the central fireplace, and chamfered beams and joists are present in the centre room. The left and right rooms have a mix of original and 20th-century replacement beams. There is a quarter turn staircase next to the front door and against the stack. A timber-framed partition with close studding is located next to the stack. The original partition between the centre and right rooms has been removed, but a morticed beam remains. The first floor was not inspected.
Local climate
Church 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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