Wellshead Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1988. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Wellshead Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-cellar-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wellshead Cottage, Broadway, Harwell, OX11 0HD
- OS grid reference
- SU 491 888
- Coordinates
- 51.59655, -1.29213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wellshead Cottage is a cottage, likely dating from the early 17th century, with a bay on the left side rebuilt in 1969. The construction is a mix of irregular timber framing with rendered infill on the right, and a false timber frame and render, probably over brick, on the left. The roof is of old plain tiles, with a brick ridge stack in the centre featuring a rebuilt flue. The cottage is single-storey and attic, with a two-window front. A 20th-century plank door is set within a 20th-century gabled porch at the centre. The windows are irregular and are 20th-century casements. Two raking dormers are visible on the roof. A one-bay addition is present on the right, also single-storey and attic. The interior has not been inspected. The cottage is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
Wellshead Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- 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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