Drive Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1989. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Drive Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-mullion-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Drive Cottage, Sarsden, OX7 6PP
- OS grid reference
- SP 287 230
- Coordinates
- 51.90556, -1.58418
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Drive Cottage is an estate cottage built around 1830 for James Haughton Langston. It is constructed from regularly coursed and dressed limestone rubble with quoins and features a stone slate roof with moulded coped verges on kneelers. The building is designed in the Tudor Gothic style and stands two storeys high.
On the north-west side, there is an oriel window with latticed lights located to the left gable end on the first floor. The centre has a single-storey projecting gable, while the right side features a full-height projecting gable with a casement window on the first floor. A stone ridge stack is positioned at the centre and retains one octagonal shaft. The entrance is found in a lean-to attached to the right gable end, which was partly rebuilt in the mid-20th century. Additionally, the south-east wall has one 2-light and one 3-light mullion window.
Local climate
Drive Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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 — 5 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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