Akeman 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.
Akeman Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-tracery-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 June 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Akeman Cottage, High Street, Ramsden
- OS grid reference
- SP 356 152
- Coordinates
- 51.83468, -1.48376
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Akeman Cottage is a 17th-century cottage built from coursed limestone rubble and topped with a stone slate roof. It has an L-shaped plan with a unit range and a wing at the rear, consisting of one storey and an attic. There is an integral stone end stack on the right side. The front features a pair of gabled stone full dormers, each with 2-light leaded wooden casements. The two-window front has small-paned 2-light wooden casements. To the left, there is a 20th-century addition with a boarded door on the return. Inside, the cottage has a chamfered spine beam and an open fireplace on the right, which has a wooden lintel, along with a wooden winder stair located behind it.
Local climate
Akeman 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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