Tulip Cottage, Manor Cottage and Higleys Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1988. House.

Tulip Cottage, Manor Cottage and Higleys Cottage

WRENN ID
cold-groin-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 1988
Type
House
Address
Tulip Cottage, Manor Cottage and Higleys Cottage, B4030, Enstone
OS grid reference
SP 380 249
Coordinates
51.92212, -1.44865
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tulip Cottage, Manor Cottage, and Higleys Cottage are three small houses that were likely once one or two separate dwellings. They date from the 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The buildings are constructed from limestone rubble with wooden lintels, featuring roofs made of Stonesfield slate and concrete plain tiles, along with rubble chimney stacks. The cottages form an L-shaped range and stand two storeys high with attics.

Tulip Cottage, which projects towards the road, has a rectangular stair projection with a small leaded casement window. Manor Cottage, located at the angle of the ranges, has modern casement windows but still retains an old plank door beneath a stone-slated canopy. Higleys Cottage, situated in the right half of the rear range, features a small-pane casement window and a doorway positioned to the right of the chimney stack. There is also a single-storey section on the end of the range, likely built in the 19th century, designed as a grotto with an archway (now glazed) and several recesses. The steeply pitched roofs of both ranges include a total of four chimney stacks, and there are 19th and 20th-century extensions projecting from the left side of the front range.

Inside, the cottages have stop-chamfered beams and open fireplaces. It is noted that one of the doors previously displayed the date 1668. The vermiculated stonework of the grotto may have been sourced from Thomas Bushell's renowned waterworks at Neat Enstone.

Local climate

Tulip Cottage, Manor Cottage and Higleys Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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