Simons Lea is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1986. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Simons Lea
- WRENN ID
- standing-flue-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Simons Lea, Simons Lane, Shipton-Under-Wychwood, OX7 6DH
- OS grid reference
- SP 276 172
- Coordinates
- 51.85278, -1.59955
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Simons Lea is a cottage, originally two cottages, likely built in the early 18th century, featuring a central projecting gabled extension. The structure is made of rubble with Cotswold stone roofs, which are hipped over the central projection, and it has 20th-century stone chimneys. The building has a T-plan layout, with one bay on the left, a projecting one-bay extension, and two bays on the right. The extension has angled corner blocks, with the right-hand block serving as the entrance. The cottage is one and a half to two storeys tall.
The right-hand section includes a gabled half-dormer, a cross-mullion window, and a small stair-light to the right. The projecting part features a small gabled dormer at the top of the hip and a low window at the collar, as it was once a beer house; the main window here is a two-light casement. The left-hand section has a heavy plinth and one range of small casement windows.
Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace at the south end, located in the corner of the left-hand cottage, and both parts of the cottage have stop-chamfered spine beams.
Local climate
Simons Lea receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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 — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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