Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- riven-shingle-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rectory Cottage, Church End, Rollright, OX7 5RX
- OS grid reference
- SP 325 313
- Coordinates
- 51.97995, -1.52736
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rectory Cottage is a house dating from the mid-17th century, located in Great Rollright. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh-slate roof with a brick ridge stack. The house follows a two-unit lobby-entry plan.
The front facade is regular in appearance, with three windows. The central doorway has a wooden lintel and is surmounted by a two-light stone-mullioned window. The right bay features three-light mullioned windows on both floors, while the left bay originally had a four-light window at ground floor, which was reduced to three lights when a doorway was inserted to the extreme left. All windows have stone lintels. The steeply-pitched 19th-century roof includes a gabled roof dormer and a large central stack with three shafts. The right gable wall has a chamfered plinth and features aligned mullioned windows of three, three, and two lights.
The rear of the house, facing the road, includes a small original stair window and two later windows.
Internally, the house retains central back-to-back open fireplaces. One fireplace has a cambered bressumer and a blocked oven, while the other has inglenooks.
Local climate
Rectory 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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