Chaucer's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1969. House. 1 related planning application.
Chaucer's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-remnant-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1969
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chaucer's Cottage, 26, Park Street, Woodstock, OX20 1SP
- OS grid reference
- SP 443 167
- Coordinates
- 51.84778, -1.35823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chaucer's Cottage is a house dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a gabled stone slate roof, with brick stacks at the ends and on the ridge. The house has a three-unit plan and stands two storeys tall, with a three-window range. A 20th-century bracketed segmental hood is positioned over a 20th-century door. The windows have concrete lintels and are horned 8-pane sashes. The interior has not been inspected. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Chaucer's Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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