Giles Cottage and Attached Stone Slab Fence is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1989. House.
Giles Cottage and Attached Stone Slab Fence
- WRENN ID
- riven-foundation-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Giles Cottage and Attached Stone Slab Fence, Hazel's Lane, Filkins and Broughton Poggs
- OS grid reference
- SP 239 042
- Coordinates
- 51.73686, -1.6546
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Giles Cottage is a house that likely dates from the early to mid-18th century, with an extension added in the early 19th century. The building has a small early 19th-century wing that forms an L-shape. It is constructed from coursed rubble limestone, with the early 19th-century wing featuring a front made of squared and coursed stone and a rendered rear wall. The roofs are covered with stone slates, and there is an external rubble stone chimney on the front gable end of the original wing.
The house is two storeys high, with the original wing consisting of two bays. It has early 20th-century two-light wooden casements with old wooden lintels on the right side. There is a central blocked doorway that has a similar casement and shares a simple stone slab hood with a 20th-century door in the early 19th-century wing. This wing projects from the far bay and has one similar casement on the first floor, while the ground floor has been altered to include a later 20th-century two-light wooden casement.
Attached to the right end of the wing is a 20th-century single-storey roughcast extension that connects the house to a former outbuilding, which is now a garage. Inside the original wing, there is a very small moulded stone fireplace that is likely re-used and dated "WAFS August the 6: 1612." The ceiling beam and joists in the same room are slightly chamfered and stopped. Additionally, there is an early 19th-century fence made of upright limestone slabs attached to the front corner of the house.
Local climate
Giles Cottage and Attached Stone Slab Fence receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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