Fox Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1989. House. 2 related planning applications.

Fox Cottage

WRENN ID
noble-stair-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 May 1989
Type
House
Address
Fox Cottage, West Street, Kingham, OX7 6YQ
OS grid reference
SP 258 240
Coordinates
51.91467, -1.62488
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fox Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed from roughly coursed and banded limestone and marlstone rubble, featuring alternating angle quoins, and has a stone slate roof with coped verges. The building has two storeys and a gable-lit attic, with a three-window front. The 18th-century leaded casements have chamfered wood lintels and stepped ogee stops on the first floor, while the ground floor features wedged voussoirs. The central door is a 20th-century half-glazed design, also with wedged voussoirs. The house has integral ashlar end stacks with moulded dripstones and capping. A small paired lancet window, believed to have come from the demolished Kingham Manor House in the 1920s, is located in the right gable end attic. At the rear, there is a two-storey lean-to on the left with a late 20th-century flat-roofed extension attached, which is not of special architectural interest, and a 19th-century single-storey gabled range at right angles to the rear on the right.

Inside, there is a central cross passage. The right ground-floor room features two chamfered cross beams with run-out stops, an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered wood lintel, and the position of an oak winder staircase that survives from the first floor to the attic. The left room has a plastered spine beam, cornice, and wood dado rail. The first floor has chamfered ceiling beams and a collar truss roof in three bays, with double butt-purlins in the attic.

Local climate

Fox Cottage 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 — 7 transactions since 1998
  • 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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