Lock's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1975. House. 2 related planning applications.

Lock's Cottage

WRENN ID
ruined-hearth-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 January 1975
Type
House
Address
Lock's Cottage, High Street, Standlake, OX29 7RZ
OS grid reference
SP 398 031
Coordinates
51.72603, -1.42497
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lock's Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a gabled concrete tile roof with stone ridge stacks. The building has a three-unit lobby-entry plan and is one storey with an attic, presenting a three-window range. The doorway has a timber lintel above it and is stepped-ovolo-moulded, leading to a 17th-century plank door with iron fittings. A 20th-century stone porch has been added. The windows have timber lintels and include a late 19th-century two-light casement in the gabled dormer.

Inside, the room to the right features a keyed and chamfered stone fireplace along with stop-chamfered beams. The room to the left has a stepped-ovolo-moulded beam and stop-chamfered joists with scribed soffits, as well as a large stone lintel over a stone fireplace. The lobby contains a 17th-century panelled door. The roof is a collar-truss type with butt-purlins, and the room on the right is open to the roof, which is ceiled with a stop-chamfered beam to the left. Overall, the cottage showcases a good example of 17th-century vernacular interior design.

Local climate

Lock's Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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