Pike Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage, toll house.
Pike Cottage
- WRENN ID
- endless-hammer-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage, toll house
- Address
- Pike Cottage, B4031, Great Tew
- OS grid reference
- SP 392 316
- Coordinates
- 51.98209, -1.42944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pike Cottage is a toll house that was converted into a cottage around 1800. It is built from coursed squared marlstone and features wooden lintels, topped with a Welsh-slate roof and a limestone ashlar stack. The building has a single-unit plan and stands two storeys high. The symmetrical front has a central door flanked by two-light casement windows, with a similar casement window above on the first floor. The roof is pyramid-shaped. The stack at the rear has a moulded cap, which is characteristic of other cottages in the Great Tew estate.
Inside, the beams and joists are chamfered with run-out stops, and there is a large open fireplace with a cambered bressumer and a bread oven. A winder stair, which is now largely demolished, used to flank the fireplace. The Swerford/Aynho road was turnpiked in 1768 but was altered before 1808, when the cottage was built at a new junction. Pike Cottage is marked on a map from 1808.
Local climate
Pike 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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