Breakspear Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. A C17 House.
Breakspear Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-timber-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Breakspear Cottage, Compton Beauchamp
- OS grid reference
- SU 283 871
- Coordinates
- 51.58286, -1.59267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Breakspear Cottage is a house that likely dates from the early 17th century. It is constructed from squared and coursed chalk, with uncoursed chalk rubble on a sarsen base, and features chalk quoins, brick dressings, and a stack. The roof is thatched. The building has a one-unit plan and is one and a half storeys high, with a two-window range. There is a 20th-century brick porch with a timber lintel above a 19th-century plank door that has a lock. Most windows are 20th-century casements, except for one 18th-century two-light leaded casement on the left. The roof is hipped, and there is an end stack on the left side. Inside, there is a full set of chamfered and stopped beams and joists, along with a two-bay collar-truss roof featuring butt purlins. There is also a 20th-century lean-to with an entry on the left and a 20th-century gabled extension at the rear.
Local climate
Breakspear Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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