The Green and Blenheim Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1989. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
The Green and Blenheim Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-copper-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1989
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- The Green and Blenheim Cottage, Kingham
- OS grid reference
- SP 262 241
- Coordinates
- 51.91558, -1.62042
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are two attached cottages located on the south-east side of The Green. The first cottage dates to the early 18th century, with later alterations. It is constructed of regularly coursed limestone and marlstone rubble, with a straw thatch roof. The cottage is one storey and has an attic. It has boarded doors to the left and far right, the left door featuring wedged voussoirs with a flush keystone, and the right door segmental-headed. There is a small 19th-century casement window to the left of each doorway, with the right casement being segmental-headed and featuring an eyebrow eaves dormer directly above. A small red brick ridge stack is located centrally. The second cottage likely dates to the early 19th century, and may incorporate elements of an earlier building, with later additions and alterations. It is built of regularly coursed limestone and marlstone rubble, with a slate roof. It is two storeys high. Four 19th-century segmental-headed casements are located directly below the eaves, and three are on the ground floor - one to the left and two to the right of the boarded door, which is situated beneath a cusped gabled hood to the left of centre. A 19th-century casement is positioned where a doorway was formerly infilled. Integral end stacks are on the left and a ridge stack on the right, both with red brick shafts; a section to the right of the ridge stack appears to be slightly later than the rest of the cottage. A 19th-century lean-to is attached to the rear on the right.
Local climate
The Green and Blenheim Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2006
- 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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