Kings Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 1988. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Kings Cottage
- WRENN ID
- kindled-timber-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 June 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Kings Cottage, Pudlicote Lane, Chilson, OX7 3HU
- OS grid reference
- SP 318 193
- Coordinates
- 51.8715, -1.5388
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kings Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been combined into one dwelling, dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with some alterations likely made in the early 20th century. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a stone slate roof. It has a three-unit plan and stands two storeys high, with the right side being lower.
The south-east front has a dressed stone ridge stack that is off-centre to the left, along with integral dressed stone end stacks that include offsets and copings. There are five windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor, which are probably early 20th century two-light leaded wooden-framed metal casements with stone cills. The ground floor windows have segmental-arched stone cills. A 20th-century glazed door with a segmental-arched stone head is located between the first and second windows from the left, while a boarded door with a segmental-arched stone head and a lean-to porch is situated between the second and third windows from the left.
Inside, the left-hand ground-floor room features a chamfered spine beam, a rebuilt stone fireplace that incorporates an old chamfered wooden lintel with bar stops, and a remodelling of the semi-circular winder stair located at the rear of the stack. The central ground-floor room also has a chamfered spine beam and a rebuilt fireplace with an old wooden lintel. The right-hand ground-floor room contains a chamfered spine beam and a rebuilt fireplace that incorporates an old chamfered wooden lintel with ogee stops.
Local climate
Kings Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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