Phoenix Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
Phoenix Cottage
- WRENN ID
- endless-corridor-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Phoenix Cottage, Eynsham Road, Cassington, OX29 4DL
- OS grid reference
- SP 453 105
- Coordinates
- 51.79202, -1.34366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Phoenix Cottage is a late 17th-century house located on the east side of Cassington Eynsham Road. It began as a thatched cottage, as shown on Ordnance Survey maps. The original section is constructed of squared and coursed limestone, with a gabled concrete tile roof, half-hipped to the right, and a left-hand end stack finished in brick. The building was later extended to a two-unit plan.
The original house has two storeys and a two-window front. Flat stone arches are found over 20th-century windows, which have replaced earlier openings. Two doorways have been blocked. An 18th-century bay was added to the right, featuring a timber lintel over a 20th-century door, a flat stone arch over a 20th-century window, and a gabled half-dormer. A 20th-century rear extension has also been added.
Inside, the original section has heavy stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The 18th-century extension has a two-bay collar-truss roof with butt purlins.
Local climate
Phoenix Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- 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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