Friends Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
Friends Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-flagstone-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Friends Cottage, 69, Wood Green, Witney, OX28 1DB
- OS grid reference
- SP 359 103
- Coordinates
- 51.7911, -1.47956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Friends Cottage is a pair of houses, now combined into a single dwelling, dating to the late 17th or early 18th century. It is constructed of roughly-coursed limestone rubble, with a gabled roof covered in artificial stone slates. The chimney stacks are made of stone, finished with brick on the left, and of brick on the right. The building has an L-shaped plan, featuring a projecting wing on the right. The front facade has a two-window arrangement on the left side and a single window on the projecting wing to the right. Timber lintels are above the 20th-century front door and windows. The interior includes chamfered beams and a chamfered bressumer above an open fireplace on the right side.
Local climate
Friends Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- 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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