5 and 6, Model Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1981. Semi-detached cottages. 4 related planning applications.
5 and 6, Model Cottages
- WRENN ID
- plain-tracery-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1981
- Type
- Semi-detached cottages
- Address
- 5 and 6, Model Cottages, Bampton Road, Black Bourton, OX18 2PD
- OS grid reference
- SP 285 039
- Coordinates
- 51.73386, -1.58807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of semi-detached estate workers' cottages, dating to circa 1860 and designed by E.G. Bruton for Christ Church College, Oxford. They are constructed of squared and coursed limestone, rock-faced, with slate roofs and stone chimneys. The cottages are in a rustic Gothick style, characterised by steep roof pitches and pointed arches over the narrow windows.
The cottages are two storeys and two bays wide facing the road. The right-hand bay is gabled and features a three-light window with stop-chamfered stone mullions on the ground floor, a pair of single-light windows above, and an arched vent slit in the gable. The right return of this bay has an arched doorway, a small round window below the eaves, and a two-light casement in a catslide semi-dormer. A gable beyond this is similar to the front but the ground floor window has been altered to a 20th-century metal casement. The front of the left-hand bay has two two-light windows with stop-chamfered stone mullions to the ground floor, and a single light in a gabled semi-dormer above. The left gable end is similar to the other gabled bays but has a round vent in the gable. A wing to the rear of the left-hand bay projects with a catslide porch, featuring an arched door and buttresses. The cottages are part of a row of three pairs of cottages and a lodgings house.
Local climate
5 and 6, Model Cottages receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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