Blackthorn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1989. House. 1 related planning application.

Blackthorn Cottage

WRENN ID
seventh-flint-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 May 1989
Type
House
Address
Blackthorn Cottage, Queen's Street, Bampton, OX18 2LP
OS grid reference
SP 315 033
Coordinates
51.72831, -1.5445
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blackthorn Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century to early 18th century, with a slightly later 18th-century extension on the right. It is constructed of coursed rubble limestone, with the original section featuring a thatched roof and flanking chimneys—stone on the left and brick on the right. The extension has a stone slate roof. The building is one and a half to two storeys high.

The two earlier bays on the left have wooden casements with horizontal glazing bars and 20th-century wooden lintels on the ground floor; the left window has four lights, while the right has three lights. Above these are older three-light casements that slightly break into the thatch, with some made of cast iron and others with leaded glazing. There is a small leaded stair window to the left, aligned with the stack. The central entrance features a flush-panelled door topped by a 20th-century gabled hood supported by wooden brackets.

The slightly lower extension to the right is one storey with an attic and has two bays. The ground floor is irregular, with an old three-light wood and metal casement on the left, a 20th-century two-light wooden casement in a blocked central doorway, and an old boarded door with a blocked opening on the right. All these openings have wooden lintels. The upper storey includes two 19th to 20th-century gabled eaves-line dormers with three-light wooden casements and a small central skylight.

Local climate

Blackthorn Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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