School Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
School Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-tallow-moss
- 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
- School Cottage, Church Street, Wootton, OX20 1DH
- OS grid reference
- SP 438 197
- Coordinates
- 51.87498, -1.36385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
School Cottage is a house located on Wootton Church Street, with a datestone above the door indicating it was built in 1738. The building is constructed from squared and coursed limestone and features a gabled stone slate roof with a stone stack on the right end. It has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys tall with a two-window range. The windows and the 20th-century door are topped with keyed stone lintels. Inside, the cottage has chamfered beams.
Local climate
School Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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