Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1989. Cottage.
Garden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-loggia-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Garden Cottage, Kelmscott
- OS grid reference
- SU 250 989
- Coordinates
- 51.68856, -1.63861
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden Cottage is a cottage dating from the mid-17th century, with extensions added in the late 17th or early 18th century, along with later modifications. The building is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble and features a stone slate roof. The original two-cell plan has been extended by one bay to the left. The cottage is one storey high with an attic.
The original section has a small 19th-century casement window with a wood lintel on either side of a roughly central glazed door, and there are two leaded gabled eaves dormers. The slightly recessed extension includes a glazed door to the right, a small 19th-century casement to the left, and another casement directly below the eaves. An integral end stack to the right has a dripstone and capping, with a prominent semi-circular bread oven projection at the base, topped with two massive stone slabs.
At the rear, there are 19th-century casements with wood lintels, including two directly below the eaves and three on the ground floor. Inside, the centre and right ground-floor rooms have been combined into one space and feature a deep-chamfered spine beam, along with an oak winder staircase located to the right of the fireplace. The roof structure consists of a single-purlin design with principal rafters rising from the wall tops, arranged in three bays for the original cottage and extended by one bay to the left.
Local climate
Garden 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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