Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1989. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Church Cottage

WRENN ID
fossil-rubblework-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1989
Type
Cottage
Address
Church Cottage, Kelmscott, GL7 3HG
OS grid reference
SU 248 993
Coordinates
51.69234, -1.64121
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Cottage is a cottage, likely dating from the early 19th century, although it incorporates elements of a preceding building. Minor additions and alterations have occurred later. The walls are constructed of unworked limestone rubble, topped with a stone slate roof. The cottage is two storeys high. It has 20th-century casement windows directly below the eaves on the left and right sides. The ground floor features 19th-century casement windows with wooden lintels, one to the left and two to the right of the boarded front door, which is located to the left of the centre. Integral end stacks have red brick shafts. The outline of an earlier roof slope is visible on the left gable end. A rubblestone lean-to extends from the rear. The interior was not inspected during a resurvey in May 1987, but it was noted as having a chamfered cross beam in the left ground-floor room, and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops to the right of the ground floor. It is included on the heritage register for group value.

Local climate

Church Cottage 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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  • 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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