Wychwood Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Wychwood Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-niche-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 June 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wychwood Cottage, High Street, Ramsden, OX7 3AU
- OS grid reference
- SP 352 154
- Coordinates
- 51.83619, -1.48917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wychwood Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1700, with a late 18th century or early 19th century addition. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and features a thatched and slate roof. The building has a two-unit end lobby-entry plan with a one-unit addition, positioned at right angles to the road. It stands two storeys high.
The south-east front has integral brick end stacks and an off-centre stone ridge stack with a brick top. The façade includes three windows, primarily consisting of 2-light small-paned wooden casements with a wooden lintel. There is a ground-floor fixed-light window to the left, and a 20th-century boarded door located between the first and second windows, slightly off-centre to the right, which is sheltered by a 20th-century hipped-roofed porch. There are signs of a possible former doorway to the left, now a window, and a potential former window to its right, indicated by straight joints. Above the doorway, there is a wooden tie in the wall, which may be the wooden lintel of a former first-floor window.
To the right, there is a one-storey outbuilding. Inside the left-hand part of the cottage, there is a chamfered spine beam and joists, as well as a stone and tile floor. The old fireplace on the right has been altered, with a cupboard to the left that features a curved wall, possibly indicating the location of a former staircase.
Local climate
Wychwood 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 2000
- 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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