1 and 2, Widford Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1989. House. 4 related planning applications.
1 and 2, Widford Cottages
- WRENN ID
- scarred-entrance-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1 and 2, Widford Cottages, Main Road, Clanfield, OX18 2SH
- OS grid reference
- SP 284 015
- Coordinates
- 51.71231, -1.58989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 and 2 Widford Cottages are a pair of houses that were originally built in the mid to late 18th century and later extended in the early 19th century. The cottages are constructed from uncoursed limestone rubble, with the addition featuring more regularly coursed stone, and they have a machine tile roof. The original two-unit plan was extended by a similar length in the early 19th century.
Each cottage is two storeys high. A straight joint can be seen immediately to the left of the ridge stack, indicating the extension. Each cottage has a 19th-century casement window on both floors, positioned to the left and right of a central boarded door. The right cottage has wood lintels above the windows, while the left cottage has rendered lintels. There is a central ridge stack with a dripstone and red brick capping, along with an integral end stack featuring a red brick shaft on the left.
Inside, the left room of the right cottage has a chamfered spine beam. The right room of the left cottage includes a straight-flight staircase, a chamfered cross-beam, and an infilled inglenook fireplace in the left room.
Local climate
1 and 2, Widford Cottages 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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