Stone Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1989. House. 2 related planning applications.
Stone Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-brass-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Stone Cottage, Lower End, Alvescot, OX18 2QA
- OS grid reference
- SP 273 041
- Coordinates
- 51.73553, -1.6058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stone Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century, with a right bay added in the early to mid-20th century that matches the original style, and a rear wing constructed in 1986. The building is made of coursed rubble limestone and features a stone slate roof, with rubble chimneys at the gable ends and between the right bays. It is one storey high with an attic and consists of three bays. The windows are 20th-century barred wooden casements, with two-light windows in the attic and the left ground floor, and a three-light window in the ground floor of the right bays. Wooden lintels are present above the windows. The upper windows are set in full gabled dormers topped with stone ball finials. There is a 20th-century door located between the left bays, which is sheltered by a lean-to stone slab hood supported by wooden brackets. The rear of the cottage features later lean-to extensions and a wing from the 1980s that matches the original style. Inside, the centre bay has stop-chamfered main ceiling beams and a fireplace lintel, while the left bay contains a roughly chamfered cross beam.
Local climate
Stone Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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 — 13 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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