Grass Ground Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Grass Ground Cottage
- WRENN ID
- moated-marble-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Grass Ground Cottage, Chapel Lane, Hailey
- OS grid reference
- SP 356 124
- Coordinates
- 51.80954, -1.4845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grass Ground Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a gabled stone slate roof with end stacks made of stone finished in brick. The cottage has a two-unit rear outshut plan and stands two storeys high with a three-window range. An old timber lintel is positioned over a 20th-century door, and there are 20th-century timber lintels above the 20th-century windows. To the right, there is a projection for a bread oven, and the service range at the rear left has been remodeled in the 20th century.
Inside, the cottage has chamfered beams, and the room to the left features quartered stop-chamfered beams. There are winder stairs adjoining the stacks, and a 17th-century plank door leads to the attic stairs on the left. The roof is a three-bay collar-truss design with butt purlins, while the rear range has older principles with trenching for through-purlins.
Local climate
Grass Ground 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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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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