Post Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Post Box Cottage
- WRENN ID
- last-doorway-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Post Box Cottage, Sutton Lane, Stanton Harcourt, OX29 5RU
- OS grid reference
- SP 417 063
- Coordinates
- 51.75388, -1.3967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Post Box Cottage is a house located on Sutton Lane in Stanton Harcourt. It dates back to the 17th century and has undergone later alterations. The building is timber-framed with rendered and wattle and daub infill, resting on a limestone rubble plinth. The left bay is clad in coursed limestone rubble, and it features a gabled thatch roof with a brick stack at the left end. The cottage has a two-unit plan and is one storey with an attic, displaying a two-window range.
On the right side, there is a 20th-century two-light casement window, while the left side has a late 19th-century two-light casement window with timber lintels above it, as well as a projection for a bread oven. The cottage also has two-light dormer casements. A plank door with a chamfered wood architrave is located at the rear, and there is an entry in a 20th-century extension to the right. The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest. The building is shown on the Ordnance Survey map as Letter Box Cottage and Devonia.
Local climate
Post Box Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2014
- 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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