Wychwood Lodge Cottage and Wychcot is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Wychwood Lodge Cottage and Wychcot
- WRENN ID
- watchful-stair-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wychwood Lodge Cottage and Wychcot, Sheep Street, Burford
- OS grid reference
- SP 250 121
- Coordinates
- 51.80772, -1.63872
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wychwood Lodge Cottage and Wychcot are a pair of houses, formerly known as the Crown Inn, dating from the late 17th century. They feature a front made of cut and dressed ashlar-quality rubble with a high plinth, topped by a Cotswold stone roof and three chimneys, partly in ashlar. The buildings are designed in a traditional gabled Cotswold style, contrasting with the adjacent Chestnuts. They stand two storeys tall with an attic, which includes three attic gables. The windows have hollow chamfer mullions set in rebated surrounds, arranged as three, two, and three lights in the attic. The outer two-storey angled bays have hipped stone slate roofs and are arranged in a 1:4:1-light pattern, with a central four-light window featuring a drip on the first floor.
On the ground floor, there is a central segmental archway that has been filled with two pointed doorways, which have panelled doors and Y-tracery over-lights, supported by narrow imposts. A continuous string course runs above the ground floor, raised over the central archway. To the right of the archway are two irregular windows, which were part of the former entrance. The property includes two rear wings and a barn-like cross wing that forms a courtyard; the rear part of the east wing is now the Masonic Lodge. A Caernarvon-arch doorway to the left of the cross wing suggests a medieval origin, as does the first-floor hall of the rear wing. The interior has been altered and divided, featuring a Tudor arch fireplace on the first floor.
Local climate
Wychwood Lodge Cottage and Wychcot receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- 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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