Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- western-wattle-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, Hanborough, OX29 8AB
- OS grid reference
- SP 426 128
- Coordinates
- 51.81224, -1.38235
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a gabled thatched roof and brick end stacks, rebuilt in the 20th century on the left. The house has a 2-unit plan, and is two storeys high with a 2-window front. It has timber lintels over a 20th-century door and late 19th or 20th-century casement windows. The right-hand room contains winder stairs adjoining an open fireplace with a bread oven. The left-hand room has stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, a bressumer over an open fireplace, and ribbed doors adjoining winder stairs. The roof is of butt-purlin construction.
Local climate
Thatched 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 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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