Brasenose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1957. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.

Brasenose Cottage

WRENN ID
floating-doorway-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1957
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Brasenose Cottage, Church End, Rollright, OX7 5RX
OS grid reference
SP 326 314
Coordinates
51.98019, -1.52672
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brasenose Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates back to 1656, as indicated by the datestone, and has undergone alterations in the 18th century and extensions in the 20th century. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble, featuring wooden lintels and some ashlar dressings. The roof is covered with Stonesfield-slate and asbestos-slate, and there are rubble-and-brick stacks.

The cottage is designed in an L shape and has two storeys. The front has two windows and features three-light windows with renewed casements, along with a central door. Above the door is the datestone inscribed "IVNE 20/1656". A wing projects from the left side and includes two old three-light leaded casements, as well as a secondary entrance at the angle that has a 20th-century stone porch. The rear of the building retains four two-light stone-mullioned windows with labels and has a small two-storey extension. The roof has gable parapets on the main range and features four stacks, most of which have renewed brick shafts on rubble plinths.

Inside, there is a large open fireplace with a renewed bressumer and a bread oven, along with an earlier stone recess that may have been the original oven. There is also a smaller open fireplace with a cambered bressumer.

Local climate

Brasenose Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • 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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