Dove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1976. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Dove Cottage

WRENN ID
idle-cornice-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1976
Type
Cottage
Address
Dove Cottage, Church Lane, Burford, OX18 4SD
OS grid reference
SP 253 123
Coordinates
51.80891, -1.6342
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dove Cottage is a cottage, likely originally a dovecote, that dates from the mid to late 19th century and probably includes some earlier materials. It is built of rubble and features a hipped Cotswold stone roof topped with a ball finial. The cottage has two storeys and consists of a single cell. It has 20th-century casement windows, and there is a single-storey extension at the west side that serves as the entrance. One theory suggests that this cottage was used as the kitchen for the Almshouses located over 30 yards away.

Local climate

Dove Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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