Baytree Cottage Corner Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1989. Cottage.
Baytree Cottage Corner Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-tower-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Baytree Cottage Corner Cottage, Main Street, Langford
- OS grid reference
- SP 248 027
- Coordinates
- 51.72273, -1.6416
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Corner Cottage, also known as The Corner House, is a pair of houses dated 1744, with later additions and alterations. The building is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble and features a stone slate roof. It has a three-unit baffle-entry plan and stands two storeys tall with an attic. The windows are irregularly spaced, with three mid-20th century casements on the first floor and one on each side and to the far right of the entrance on the ground floor, all having earlier wooden lintels except for the centre window on the first floor. There are 20th-century gabled eaves dormers on both sides. The entrance has a boarded door beneath a 20th-century open gabled weatherboarded porch, and there is an infilled doorway to the far left. A datestone marked "BB/1744" is located above the right window on the first floor. The building has an integral end stack to the right with a moulded dripstone and capping, as well as a similar rebuilt ridge stack at the centre. The outlines of the roof pitch of a former range to the rear can be seen in the back wall.
Baytree Cottage, which projects to the left and was formerly divided into two cottages, is likely from the late 18th century and has undergone later alterations. It is built of uncoursed limestone rubble, except for a slightly projecting section to the left that has been rebuilt in regularly coursed rubble. The stone slate roof has integral end stacks that were rebuilt in the mid-20th century. This two-storey building has three windows with mid-20th century casements; the left bay features leaded lights, all with earlier wooden lintels. The central entrance has a 20th-century half-glazed double door beneath a lean-to slate hood, and there is a small two-light wooden mullion window on the right gable end on the first floor.
The interior of Corner Cottage has chamfered spine beams with ogee stops in the ground- and first-floor rooms. The two ground-floor rooms to the right of the large stack have been combined into one. A staircase located behind the stack is accessed through a plank door with H- and L-hinges. The roof has a collar truss design in three bays, with principal rafters rising from the tops of the walls. There are 20th-century single-storey additions to the rear of both houses, which are not of special architectural interest.
Local climate
Baytree Cottage Corner 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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